Sonoro House
SANTOS BOLIVAR
ARCHITECTS
SANTOS BOLIVAR
LEAD ARCHITECT
Jose Antonio de los santos Bolívar
DESIGN TEAM
Angel David Olguin Ortiz
ARCHITECT IN CHARG
Dosa studio
PHOTOGRAPHS
Yi-Vega
AREA
98 m²
YEAR
2025
LOCATION
Francisco Zarco, Mexico
CATEGORY
Lodging
English description provided by the architects.
Sonoro is a project that intertwines architecture and music from its inception.
More than just a built space, it is a synesthetic work, a habitable instrument where rhythm, scale, proportion, and silence are translated from the staff to the plane.
The commission arose from a dialogue with the users, one of whom, Daniel Fraire, is a composer and guitarist with professional experience alongside the Mexican artist Carla Morrison.
This closeness between music and architecture allowed for an unusual process: composing an original melody inspired by the site, and then translating that score into an architectural project.
The methodology began with an analysis of the natural environment of the Valle de Guadalupe, complemented by an auditory sensitivity.
The resulting musical piece was interpreted through its technical and emotional elements:
rhythm became structure, scales became heights, tonality became proportion, silences became voids, and symmetries and asymmetries became design decisions.
This first phase involves the construction of two cabins, as part of a larger project developed in stages.
Each volume corresponds to a part of the original musical composition, maintaining the narrative between music and architecture in evolution.
The result is a sensitive, precise, and poetic project. Sonoro unfolds as a resonance box open to the landscape, where architecture is not only inhabited but also heard.
Each wall, each void, each relationship between light and shadow responds to a sonic logic. Inhabiting becomes interpretation.
This project presents an expanded possibility for architecture: to be a score, an instrument, and a stage for an experience that crosses disciplines and challenges formats.
