A terrace on the roof of your house? We’ve already showed you a house with a beautiful terrace on top, here, as well as some suggestions of how to solve balcony problems, here. The house we present today was spotted on www.arquitour.com and it represents a wise solution for those who don’t have enough space in the garden and want to double the time spend outside on a terrace. The house is located in Mexico and it was realized by architect Fernanda Canales. As you can see from the photos below, the ground floor is treated as the most public area, composed by a rectangular volume, with gardens on both sides, allowing a flexible space able to be fully opened to the outside. A smaller box, which houses the access, a room, the kitchen and a covered terrace-volume embedded inside transparent and sustains the whole house that is flying overhead. The service areas are developed in the basement, looking for possible release as the ground.
Playing with volumes…rectilinear blocks of glass and concrete overlap one another.
A beautiful interior garden
The power of vegetation
A roof terrace that sends you in a small heaven! The body holding pad takes the roof floor corresponding to the room to create a green roof, which, together with a series of balconies for each bedroom, trying to come off as much of the house next door.
An alley paved with white stones
You can access the terrace through a wide glass wall that slides both sides.
Architecture that pays its price to contenporaneity
A dramatic picture in black and white
Transparent communication with the exterior
The house provides enough storing items for books and other objects
The parquet makes the difference!
Circular windows to catch the sky
A front view that actually realizes a section through the house.
