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Location: Valle de Bravo, Mexico 

Architect & Interior Designer: Alejandro Bernardi / Beatriz Peschard 

Photographer: Rafael Gamo 

Submerged in the topography, and the vegetation, this estate finds its place in an exclusive residential compound located in Valle de Bravo. The house was designed as a second home in a one-story layout that contains public, private recreational and service spaces. The main entrance, between colour and stone volumes, guides you through and into the main space. A big double height stone volume with wood ceilings that encloses the living and dining experience, connected with the exterior terrace and opening on both sides to create a feel of transparency and depth.  

This magnificent space was designed as the heart of the house, connecting the service areas, with the kitchen and on the other side, the bedrooms. This volume can be integrated with the exterior terrace that hosts an exterior living, dining, pool and fire pit experience. The volumes containing the bedrooms, kitchen and service areas are located around the main stone volume, and they all interact with the topography, adjusting their position to get better views, more privacy or simply a privileged spot on the terrain. Attention to detail is present throughout the project, the dialogue between solid and transparency play a main role, the amount of natural light we draw upon the house allows regulating the temperature in a more natural sense. 

Family life flows around the central area, the main core of the house. From here, you can really appreciate all of the details and key aspects, like the emblematic windows that let nature in, and shower each space with sun and natural light. The combination of the materials and how they were applied evoke that rustic country side feeling in a contemporary and pristine design. The main core of the house is a wooden skeleton that leads and connects the whole house, creating outside views that let nature come into the house and making the atmosphere inside feel as tranquil and peaceful as in the open air.