Cascading Mexican House Embedded In A Hilltop Setting

Cascading Mexican House Embedded In A Hilltop Setting

Presiding over the surrounding hillside, Toucan House, a new 400 sq m single family home by Mexico City based Taller Hector Barrosa, elegantly cascades down the steeply sloping site in a series of four terraced volumes. The rectilinear plot with an incline of 14m presented a challenge, resulting in the strategic arrangement of the first volume, a garage and store, to form a private frontage at the lower street level, with the three remaining volumes nestled into the undulating terrain behind it, maximizing panoramic views of Valle. The pavilions are ‘interrupted’ by landscaped gardens, terraces, balconies and patios, dissolving the boundaries between architecture and landscape. The inner design is modern with lots of local wood incorporated to make it merge with outdoors.

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