Casa Meztitla is an intervention of a natural setting. It showcases the value of leisure, the tropical weather, the intense sunlight, the scents of nature, the terraces that date back over 500 years and the imposing rocky mountain known as \u201cEl Tepozteco\u201d, which has been a fixture of the place since ancient times. It is context in itself. It is the creation of pure space within the natural space (Paz, O., 1987). It is an expression of intimacy in constant contact with nature. Two elements reveal its existence to the outside world: on the one hand, the colorful bougainvillea that appears intermittently between the dense foliage and that outlines the perimeter of the site; and on the other hand, the massive monolithic prism that emerges between the trees.<\/p>\n
The house is but a reflection of the unending relationship between indoor and outdoor living spaces: it is impossible to go from one area to the other without walking through outdoor spaces; each area (with the exception of the services) is open to the outside world, which means that by crossing any door one can be both indoors and outdoors. In short, the house works organically as a series of rooms that connect via different outdoor areas. The mild subtropical weather of Tepoztl\u00e1n was one of the other elements that were considered in order to build a home that wouldn\u2019t close in on itself but rather be open to the natural environment and encourage the coexistence between the house, its inhabitants and nature.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Casa Meztitla is an intervention in a wild scenario that dialogues with the flora and topography carved more than 500 years ago. The architecture is developed by safeguarding the native vegetation, effective sunlight and topographic levels, in order to harvest rainwater in a system that guarantees its water sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construidos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edaa.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edaa.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edaa.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edaa.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edaa.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edaa.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edaa.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edaa.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edaa.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edaa.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}