Modern Home Design Stands Amongst The Trees In Harmony With The Surrounding Landscape

Surrounded by vegetation, Casa El Pinar emerges among the trees of a property still taken over by the forest in the heart of Rancho Avándaro, located within Valle de Bravo. The design guideline was clearly marked by the context from the beginning: the priority was to generate a friendly project with the environment and at the same time forceful in its language. CF Taller de Arquitectura and Merodio Arquitectos have completed a vacation home using glue-laminated timber beams to create bright and spacious rooms that open out to the surrounding forest. The 430 square-metre Casa El Pinar is sited on a steep plot in Valle de Bravo, a vacation destination on lake Avándaro, roughly 150 km from Mexico City. The design makes the most of the lot’s steep topography by creating a basement that houses the support spaces and building the main level of the home above it. This ensures that the living spaces can open out to the home’s backyard without any elevation change. The constant v