House in the Woods, also published as Casa en el Bosque, is a Mexican house in Valle de Bravo designed by Parque Humano.
But this is not just another glass house in the forest.
Instead of becoming one single block placed in the middle of the woods, the house is broken into pavilions. One holds the social spaces, another contains the bedrooms, and a third piece relates to the pool.
This fragmentation allows the forest to remain present between the spaces.
The path through the house becomes part of the experience: platforms, stairs, terraces, shadows, trunks, glass, stone, wood, and vegetation all shape the way the house is lived.
Local stone anchors the pavilions to the sloping terrain. Glass brings the interiors closer to the woods. Wood filters light, heat, and privacy. And fired clay creates a skin that relates to the rural architecture of the region and changes with humidity.
House in the Woods shows that a house in the forest does not need to dominate the terrain to be memorable.
Sometimes, the strongest gesture is to break the architecture into smaller parts — and let nature pass through the house.
Architects: Parque Humano
Location: Valle de Bravo, Mexico
Area: 650 m²
Year: 2009
Photographs: Paul Rivera
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