The Sierra House
THE SIERRA HOUSE
Valdezarqs
ARCHITECTS
Valdezarqs
LEAD ARCHITECT
Jorge Antonio Valdez Z, Jorge Carlos Valdez M
MANUFACTURERS
Cemex, Helvex, Interceramic
ENGINEERING AND CONSULTING > LIGHTING
Yamil Slim
LEAD TEAM
Jorge Carlos Valdez M, Jorge Antonio Valdez Z
PHOTOGRAPHS
Raul Hernández
AREA
478 m²
YEAR
2024
LOCATION
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
CATEGORY
Houses
English description provided by the architects.
On the outskirts of San Cristóbal de las Casas, in the misty forest of Huitepec, the house emerges from the landscape as another natural element.
Its presence implies a convergence with the essence of the site, becoming a symbol and language of protection, a gesture of safeguarding the identity of the place.
It is not a foreign object, but a fragment of the mountain, a inhabited sculpture that breathes with the same cadence as the forest.
Its shape does not seek to impose itself, but to coexist; following the slope as one draws a dialogue with the earth. It only cements what is necessary, allowing the mountain to maintain its pulse.
A suspended bridge marks the transition between the everyday and the interior, a threshold of silence, a pause before the refuge.
At the base, the services are sheltered in the cold of the underground; above, the half-levels accompany the natural ascent of the terrain and reveal the forest from different heights, the foliage, the branches, the canopies open to the sky.
Its skin, made of the same earth that saw it born and of fired clay shaped by local hands, breathes with the humidity and holds the warmth of the inner fire.
Casa La Sierra is constructed contemplation, a pause of brick and earth where geometry and the mountain recognize each other, and to inhabit is also to listen, to look, and to remain.
