House in Avandaro / Taller Hector Barroso

Architecture studio Taller Hector Barroso completed in 2019 House in Avandaro in the Bravo Valley located 150 kilometers west from Mexico City. The house was built with earthen blocks, pine, and concrete to blend into its forested setting.

House in Avandaro Technical Information

Architects^1-2: Taller Hector Barroso | Hector Barroso
Location: Valle de Bravo, State of Mexico, Mexico
Typology: Redidential Architecture / Houses
Project Year: 2019
Construction area: 935 m2
Drawings: © Taller Hector Barroso
Photographs: © César Béjar

The balance between materials – mud brick, oak wood and soil – and its vernacular building processes bind this country house in harmony with its context though an architecture that dialogues and understands its environment.

– Taller Hector Barroso Architects

House in Avandaro Photographs

Text by the Architects

Four volumes are dispersed over a flat site surrounded by Valle de Bravo, Mexico’s natural forest. Each volume has a different orientation – in accordance with its program – and articulates with the rest through a central void, a water pool that reflects the surrounding pine trees.

A succession of columns grants rhythm to the house leading to porticos that generate transitions between different scales and atmospheres. In these transitional spaces, one can saunter, admire the context, and observe the materials from which the house is built.

In these intersections between volumes, a different rhythm, composed of narrow wooden lattices, grants privacy and a sense of intimacy.

The balance between materials – mud brick, oak wood, and soil – and its vernacular building processes bind this country house in harmony with its context through an architecture that dialogues and understands its environment.