This house by Jorge Hernandez de La Garza is located in a residential area of Oaxtepec, Mexico. Designed for cooling, the openings are placed for maximum air circulation. Daylight is filtered through the folds of the house.

The following information is from the architect:

‘This house by is located in a residential ares of Oaxtepec, a place of exceptional natural beauty. It is continguous to the north with the hill of Tepozteco and the south with the highway that conduces to Haciendas de Yautepec. The lot is orientated to the northeast with a splendid sight to the Tepozteco. the natural light is filtered trough the folds of the house in shape of rays that softly flood the spaces. Reflects shadows on walls and ceilings animate the interior. The shape responds to the hard hotness of the site, to place every space in the best way inside of a curved skin that opens to the immediate context to obtain the best climate and views to allow the wind circulate in a way that in summer the house can stay cool.

The organization takes place in a clear division in the horizontal direction of the house locating in the ground floor the public and recreation areas and in the high floor the dormitories connected with the lower floor by an inner-outer circulation.

The different habitable spaces fit in a transparent ares that makes its continuity with the exterior by the concrete floor that extends to the open areas, allowing to the users to move in a fluid space without any obstacles.’

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