Located in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico is the ES1 House by Seijo Peon Arquitectos. The residence’s design seeks to enhance the connection between the built structure and the landscape. This house’s design is influenced by several architectural currents from different periods that at first sight would seem irreconcilable. The logic behind extending the interior space smoothly toward the exterior with elongated horizontal elements is a clear influence of Mies Van der Rohe. The distinctive dominance of solid wall over bays, producing surprising scenarios, in conjunction with the use of color is influenced by the architecture of Luis Barragan. The colors used are derived from a regional source: inspired by traditional haciendas from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries; also taken from this source are elements such as the height of the pediment and the relationship that this generates with the environment, although managed at different scales. Finally, the influence of the climate, its tropical setting and the environmental qualities led our work to a house in which the only enclosed areas are the kitchen and bedrooms, so the social and the recreational spaces of the house are outdoors, notwithstanding some of them with ceilings, but fully open to the horizon as terraces.
