Scope
Rain Harvest Home, Temascaltepec, Mexico
墨西哥特馬斯卡特佩克 雨水豐收之家
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羅伯特.哈季森建築師事務所+哈維爾.桑切斯
Robert Hutchison Architecture+Javier Sanchez(JSa)
Scope
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羅伯特.哈季森建築師事務所+哈維爾.桑切斯
Robert Hutchison Architecture+Javier Sanchez(JSa)
Rain Harvest Home (La Casa que Cosecha Lluvia) is a humble, tripartite home in the mountains west of Mexico City that integrates with the landscape and the site’s natural cycles to offer an experiential connection to place. Living functions are dispersed into three porous wood buildings that sit gently in the landscape, with bathing and study dedicated to compact structures separate from the main living pavilion. The trio of buildings each collect rainwater, connecting to a reservoir and on-site treatment and storage system that supplies 100% of the home’s water year-round. The home is a prototype for designing regeneratively with water in a place where it has become an increasingly scarce resource. The home is part of a progressive 450-acre development called La Reserva el Peñón which presents a new model for how communities can coexist with nature.
Rain Harvest Home’s dispersed program encourages a close sensory and functional engagement with the land, with walking trails between buildings doubling as bioswales that help channel rainwater. The design offers a subtle participation with nature, the three buildings serving as the aperture through which users engage with their environment to generate a mutually beneficial connection with the site. Besides being water autonomous, the site contains a bioagriculture garden and orchard where the family harvests the majority of their food.
The physical and metaphorical center of the home is the circular, open-air bathhouse. The 250-square-foot structure includes a hot bath, sauna, steam shower, and washroom that encircle a central cold plunge pool open to the sky. The bathhouse is a place to ritualistically experience the healing qualities of water, just as it serves as a microcosm of the project’s larger self-contained water system. A functional monument to this life-giving resource, Rain Harvest Home offers a poetic dialogue with the experiential qualities of water.
Principal Architects:Robert Hutchison.Javier Sanchez(JSa)
Structural Engineering:Bykonen Carter Quinn
Contractor:TAF Alejandro Filloy
Building Area:147㎡
Site Area:8,798㎡
Principal Materials:southern yellow pine(roof framing, interior and exterior siding, wall panels)
Principal Structure:recinto (volcanic stone) foundation with wood framing
Location:Temascaltepec, Mexico
Photos:Rafael Gamo.Robert Hutchison.Cesar Bejar.Jaime Navarro.Benedikt Fahlbusch.Laia Rius Sola
Text:Robert Hutchison Architecture+Javier Sanchez(JSa)
Collator:Grace Hung
主要建築師:羅伯特.哈季森 哈維爾.桑切斯
結構工程:Bykonen Carter Quinn
施工單位:TAF Alejandro Filloy
建築面積:147 平方公尺
基地面積:8,798 平方公尺
主要建材:南方黃松(屋頂框架.內外壁板.牆板)
主要結構:recinto(火山石)地基.木框架
座落位置:墨西哥特馬斯卡特佩克
影像:拉斐爾.加莫斯 羅伯特.哈欽森 塞薩爾.貝哈爾 詹姆斯.納瓦羅 本尼迪克特.法爾布施 萊婭.里烏斯.索拉
文字:羅伯特.哈季森建築師事務所+哈維爾.桑切斯
整理:洪雅琪
羅伯特.哈季森建築師事務所+哈維爾.桑切斯
Robert Hutchison Architecture+Javier Sanchez(JSa)