The Sustainable Glass House: A Future-Oriented Design Embracing Transparency, Light, and Nature

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Brief Overview:
A 500 m2 single-family house on a single level, located in an old neighborhood adjacent to the historic center of Merida, Yucatan.
The house sits on a 2,000 m2 site, with large endemic trees fifty years old, primarily located around its perimeter, adding significant value to the site.
The new construction is designed with two main directives: to build a thermal, transparent, and lightweight house to maximize views of the site and create gradual physical connections to the trees and newly created garden, and to propose a construction system minimizing mason intervention, favoring prefabricated construction and minimizing finishing details.
The construction system developed blends metal bearing elements and cellular concrete, allowing for a high-performance structure with minimal possible section elements.
Design and Construction:
Inspiration drawn from works by Craig Ellwood, Pierre Koenig, and the Case Study Houses of 1950s California.
The construction system combines steel and cellular concrete elements, enabling the use of basic structural elements with high efficiency.
The project's module is determined by the optimal use of both materials in their commercial dimensions, defining the architecture's scale and proportions.
The house program includes three bedrooms with their respective bathrooms, a kitchen-living room-terrace in one glass volume, a studio with an attached bathroom for guests and pool use, a service area, and a garage for three cars.
Beyond the main house volume, the program is completed with a "guest pavilion," a single-level building designed as a test of minimal and high-efficiency housing design.
Architecture and Material:
Spaces are designed in relation to different layers of protection: ventilated floors, overhangs serving as circulation and temperature-light transitions, sliding-pivoting metal panels with bamboo from the region.
These strategies allow comfortable living in a large glass box in a warm climate and extreme brightness without resorting to artificial air conditioning.
In-depth study of material properties enables the creation of an innovative and affordable construction system, which, among its attributes, can combine cellular concrete with plaster based on resin from the Chukum tree.
Project Name: Itzimná House
Architects: Reyes Ríos + Larraín Arquitectos - reyesrioslarrain.com/index.php
Year: 2013
Photographs: Pim Schalkwijk, Tim Street Porter, Ignacio Rivero
Manufacturers: Chukum, Ecocreto, Hebel
Architectural and Interior Design: Salvador Reyes Ríos, Josefina Larraín Lagos
Project Development Collaborators: Carlos Patrón Ibarra, Alejandro Carrillo Olguín
Landscape: Josefina Larraín Lagos
Feng Shui Consultant: Alex Stark
Construction Structural System Concept: Salvador Reyes Ríos
Structures: Enrique Colli, Xella Mexicana S.A. de C.V., José Manuel Castillo
Structural Assembly: Ricardo Zavala
Civil Engineering: Proyecciones Civiles S.A. de C.V.
City: Merida
Country: Mexico

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