Ludwig Godefroy designed both couples of dwellings with similar enveloped, paying attention to Puerto Escondido's warm weather and inverting the typical relationship between "houses with courtyard", removing everything unnecessary (finishes, doors, windows) and keeping only the essentials, allowing a fluid space, to achieve "a courtyard with a house".
In response to this climatic condition, the project blurs the border between in and out to become a singular habitable space, where everything remains open all day and all night long.
Casa VO and Casa WO have a special roof, an interesting geometrical play of two slabs inclined to shape a V linking at the bottom, with two very big circular openings. The guest crosses the space from the access under and over the openings, in parallel to the pool in Casa Vo and crossing a walkway over the pool in Casa Wo.
After the pool, in Casa Vo, inside a double high space with a living room, kitchen, one bedroom on the ground floor, and on the first floor a lofted main bedroom with a restroom beneath the highest point of the structure. Without references disappear windows and doors.
To bring light and cross ventilation to the most insider area, additional glazed skylights and openings were designed along the back walls and roof.
Outside, following the slope of the slab, notches of concrete as stepping stones atop the roof. And when rain the water is caught by planting beds, the pool, or a drainage system along the slanting roof. Party walls between the homes contain geometric circular and triangular openings.
Like other houses, such as Mérida house or Casa Zicatela, Godefory designed the houses using concrete for structure, wood, and bricks on the floors.
In response to this climatic condition, the project blurs the border between in and out to become a singular habitable space, where everything remains open all day and all night long.
Casa VO and Casa WO have a special roof, an interesting geometrical play of two slabs inclined to shape a V linking at the bottom, with two very big circular openings. The guest crosses the space from the access under and over the openings, in parallel to the pool in Casa Vo and crossing a walkway over the pool in Casa Wo.
After the pool, in Casa Vo, inside a double high space with a living room, kitchen, one bedroom on the ground floor, and on the first floor a lofted main bedroom with a restroom beneath the highest point of the structure. Without references disappear windows and doors.
To bring light and cross ventilation to the most insider area, additional glazed skylights and openings were designed along the back walls and roof.
Outside, following the slope of the slab, notches of concrete as stepping stones atop the roof. And when rain the water is caught by planting beds, the pool, or a drainage system along the slanting roof. Party walls between the homes contain geometric circular and triangular openings.
Like other houses, such as Mérida house or Casa Zicatela, Godefory designed the houses using concrete for structure, wood, and bricks on the floors.
