Article source: Cherem Arquitectos 

The new house is solved around courtyards which themselves contain an activity that represents the tension and the relationship between the functions of the volumes that surround it. Another key intention for the design development was the decision to use as constructive method rammed earth walls, with natural aggregates that allows the earth to become black toned that seeks the integration and mimicry with the environment where it was intended that the main element outside was the vegetation.

Image Courtesy © Enrique Macías

• Architects: Cherem Arquitectos
• Project: Casa Candelaria
• Location: Miguel de Allende, Mexico
• Photography: Enrique Macías
• Design Team: Daniel Huerta, Christian Noriega
• Landscape Design: Entorno
• Construction: Cabrera & Asociados
• Surface: 220 m2, 2,370 sqf

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