Casa Zicatela in Oaxaca, Mexico by Ludwig Godefroy Architecture

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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.

Casa Zicatela in Oaxaca, Mexico by Ludwig Godefroy Architecture

February 6th, 2020 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: Ludwig Godefroy Architecture

Zicatela house is a small weekend house located on top of a hill in front of Zicatela beach, next to Puerto Escondido in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.

The house was designed with one main purpose to give the owner the oportunity to leave Mexico City to make a break with the megalopolis and urban habits, by coming to get some rest and relax while enjoying the heat of the Mexican coast and the peaceful light of Oaxaca.

Image Courtesy © Rory Gardiner

Architects: Ludwig Godefroy Architecture
Project: Casa Zicatela
Location: Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
Photography: Rory Gardiner
Constructed Area: 200 m2
Construction Completion year: 2015

Image Courtesy © Rory Gardiner

This house responds to a double landscape, on one side in the background the beach and the sea, on the other side the mountains and agave fields, the plant from which is made mezcal and tequila. This project has a very interesting personality of being a countryside house next to the sea, instead of a beach house.

The house is based on this duality, the duality of its surroundings and it´s able to repond to the mountains and be protective as a fortress as well as a widely open space; giving you the feeling to live outside in a garden, making the border between in and out dissapear.

Zicatela house is built on a small 300 m2 plot, using a tipology of defensive architecture, where a wall surrounds the terrain completely, helping create an 100% controlled area on the inside, turning it into an open-sky fortress, with only one main view towards the sky, the only permanent element in time.

The house is a bunker on the outside, one of those massive concrete structures i used to see in Normandy -where i was born- , protecting a mexican pyramid on the inside, one of those i use to see when i travel around in Mexico, the country where it´s been 10 years now i live and work.

Image Courtesy © Rory Gardiner

Image Courtesy © Ludwig Godefroy Architecture

: Image Courtesy © Rory Gardiner

: Image Courtesy © Rory Gardiner

: Image Courtesy © Rory Gardiner

: Image Courtesy © Rory Gardiner

: Image Courtesy © Rory Gardiner

: Image Courtesy © Rory Gardiner

: Image Courtesy © Rory Gardiner

: Image Courtesy © Rory Gardiner

: Image Courtesy © Ludwig Godefroy Architecture

: Image Courtesy © Ludwig Godefroy Architecture

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Tags: Mexico, Oaxaca

Categories: House, Residential

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