PPAA creates twin houses in Mexico as an "argument for building less"
Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados has completed twin houses that combine concrete with glued-laminated timber in the forests of Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
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The two houses – each measuring 500 square metres (5,382 square feet) – are collectively called Rejas and were designed for two brothers and their families, cohabitating on a 1.2-acre forested property in Avándaro, a couple of hours west of Mexico City.
"Avándaro is a landscape that's been quietly overbuilt for decades, so the first decision on Rejas was actually a renunciation," Pablo Pérez Palacios, founder of Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados (PPAA), told Dezeen,
"Instead of designing a wall or a fence between the two brothers' houses, we chose to regenerate the native forest that the site had partially lost, and let that stand as the boundary,” he said, explainging that decision set the tone for the rest of the project.
“The whole project is really an argument for building less, so the landscape has room to eventually reclaim the architecture."
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