Casa Duraznos is the natural result of a series of casual and organic connections. For starters, and considering that the project is placed in an urban area, the terrain had a very unique shape that allowed V Taller to think and visualize a project without an entrance façade. Thus, the entrance was transformed into a promenade experience that degrades the city noise into the quietness of a home, a phenomenological event in which the first contact that the users have with the house is through walls that guide and surround them so they can later be surprised with a garden.

Other elements to consider for the overall design were the site and the program -which are going to always determine the result of any project-, and the clients, who in this case were an essential part of the project’s development. The clients had an initial inclination for exploring the elements that formed the haciendas in Yucatan, with this in mind V Taller  arrived at a project that searches to embody an atemporal formal language; a house that -likewise the haciendas- is fragmented, with different height spaces that allow each room to have its own atmosphere.

Remembering how these haciendas were structured by the means of the arc and the weight the shape of the arc holds in the collective memory, V Taller decided to also implement it but now utilizing concrete, a more contemporary material. At the same time, V Taller also incorporated in the walls a stucco that refers to the chukum, a very common finish that could be found in these same haciendas.

All of these elements converge in Casa Duraznos, a project where the ground floor has different volumes that at every turn generate unexpected encounters with the landscape, while on the top floor these same volumes create a more intimate and private experience. Throughout the house, we tried to generate a series of encounters between nature and architecture with the intention of emulating the behavior of the vegetation in Chiapas or in The Huasteca Potosina.