The ancestral home of an archaeologist. Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado
18/10/2022.
[La Misión] Mexico
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Mexican architect Alfredo Navarro Tiznado has designed Casa Martha, a home for an archaeologist on a hilly site between the municipalities of Ensenada and Rosarito, in the La Misión area of Baja California, Mexico.
The space was designed with the client's profession in mind, using rudimentary, artisanal techniques and a composition that appears to be ancestral. The house is intended for Martha and Bill's use of the visual arts, a retirement home for the couple that blends in with the surrounding desert environment and faces the Pacific Ocean.
The space was designed with the client's profession in mind, using rudimentary, artisanal techniques and a composition that appears to be ancestral. The house is intended for Martha and Bill's use of the visual arts, a retirement home for the couple that blends in with the surrounding desert environment and faces the Pacific Ocean.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Plan first level. Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado.
Plan second level. Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado.
Plan third level. Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado.
Plan fourth level. Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado.
Section. Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado consists of four levels. The first of these is divided into two parts, one dedicated to visitors and the other that functions as a painting and carpentry shop or garage. The core of the house is on the second level: the entertainment room, dining room, and kitchen with large windows and porches woven with salt pine. A staircase leads to the third level where from a living room you can look out over the landscape of the region.
The house arises and is designed taking into account the environment in which it is located, both to respect the landscape and to be sustainable with its surroundings. The main construction material is a material that is as basic as it is old and abundant in the area, the earth used to create the compacted earth walls, the landscape itself being the raw material for Alfredo Navarro Tiznado's project.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
The house arises and is designed taking into account the environment in which it is located, both to respect the landscape and to be sustainable with its surroundings. The main construction material is a material that is as basic as it is old and abundant in the area, the earth used to create the compacted earth walls, the landscape itself being the raw material for Alfredo Navarro Tiznado's project.
Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.Casa Martha by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado. Photograph by Oscar Hernández Rodríguez.
Description of project by Alfredo Navarro Tiznado
Casa Martha is the home of an archaeologist, so it is designed with rudimental and artisanal techniques, conceived with the aim of unifying time, form and context through its composition and materiality of ancestral origin.
Located between the municipalities of Ensenada and Rosarito, in the urban area of La Misión, where the landscape is densified with architectural typologies for tourism. The lot has dimensions of 15 x 40 meters, on a terrain of rugged topography.
The architectural program contemplated the retirement home for a couple, Martha and Bill, as well as a space for the plastic arts. A simple development was proposed, blend in with the site and with minimal intervention. A dialogue between three volumes embedded in the site and oriented towards the Pacific Ocean from a clear axis.
The first level is divided into two areas, the visitor area made up of two rooms and the study area that can function as a painting and carpentry workshop or as a garage. On the second level, the core of the house is found: the entertainment room, dining room and kitchen make up the access threshold with large windows and porches woven with salt pine. This lattice generates, in turn, a protection from the prevailing winds, as well as a component of privacy towards the interior, generating a play of light and shadows. At the back of the social area there is a staircase that leads to the third level where the main chamber is located, which has a view of the context's landscape, in this space the interior is blurred with the exterior.
Casa Martha arises and is modeled with deep sensitivity and respect for its surroundings. The main construction element is compacted earth, in this way the site and its topography are consolidated as the raw materials of the project.
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Architects
Collaborators
Kenia Esmeralda García Rosas, Hanna Appel Hernández, Giancarlo Reyes Olguin.
Construction
Pedro Luis Curiel Bojórquez, José Francisco Ramírez García, Alfredo Navarro Tiznado.
Area
310 sqm.
Dates
2021.
Location
La Misión, Baja California, Mexico.
Photography
Alfredo Navarro Tiznado
Alfredo Navarro Tiznado is an architect from Toluca, Mexico, who has been working as a project architect since 2011. The Mexican architect trained at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California between 2008 and 2012 in Sustainable Architecture, Interiors, and Design and in 2012 at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Interior Architecture and Restoration.
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