Project Description
The project is placed on a lot of 1,188.00 square meters. Occupying just 20% of the surface, with a simple and monochromatic volumetry, Casa Tranquila emerges in the arid environment of Baja California Sur.
The intention of the project was to create a living space for a couple of foreign clients, the homeowner being a direct descendant of Frank Lloyd Wright, who wanted to feel the context that surrounds the house at all times. With views to the mountains and to the Pacific Ocean, a space was designed that could be enjoyed for vacational visitings and also to live their future retirement in the magical town of Todos Santos, B.C.S.
The design of Casa Tranquila was a collaboration between the homeowner and the architect exchanging visions till there was a finalized design.
The modular architectural floor plan, layout the different public and private areas with their respective privileged view towards some point of the landscape. The main corridor is the guiding axis of the project, it is a distribution hallway that opens towards the sky with a pergola skylight that shows us at all times the passage of natural light throughout the day.
Exterior pergolas minimize solar incidence in the West and draws in the facade different shadow designs. The project also has a free terrace on the rooftop, accessing it from a rear staircase that joins the walls of the master bedroom.
Inside the project, the material palette attach to resources from the region. Polished concrete was used for all the floors and neutral plasters on the walls, which were able to contrast with details of the aluminum finishes, ceramic tiles and carpentry made on site. In gardens and terraces gravel in neutral colors, endemic vegetation and details in “palo de arco” were used; ending in a blue tiled pool that contrasts directly with the desert landscape.