Widescreen

The forests are sprawling
The streams jump
The rocks remain
The fog spreads...

— Martin Heidegger, The Thinker as Poet

In Jiutepec — from Nahuatl, Xiuhtepetl, which means “on the hill of precious stones” — the Widescreen House is located, a project that seeks to blur itself in its context and get lost in it.

Because the place is characterized by its great climate and its proximity to Mexico City, it was ideal for developing a retirement home that takes advantage of the topography of the site to deploy its program in a linear fashion. The design of the house is simple and simple; two volumes group the spaces according to their use, one containing the public and the other the private.

The use of the resources offered by the place was a fundamental part of this project, so the proportion of the openings allows us to admire the landscape from inside the house, in addition to providing a cross ventilation system to maintain an ideal temperature without the use of heating.

The essence of the Widescreen House is elementary, it does not attempt to compete with its environment but to create an intense link between users and the place. Materiality emphasizes the sense of belonging: this concrete construction appears to be just another stone that is embedded in the hill.