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Chantli Kuaulakoyokan
Chantli Kuaulakoyokan
Mexico City, Mexico
Finalist, 2019 A+Awards, Cultural - Pavilions
Project Featured on Aug 15, 2019
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Chantli Kuaulakoyokan
Mexico City, Mexico
Finalist, 2019 A+Awards, Cultural - Pavilions
Project Featured on Aug 15, 2019
This tree house is located at the foothills of the long ‘Sierra de las Cruces’, which is the occidental limit of the Valley of Mexico’s basin. As is usual we like to take back some part of the past of the places we intervene so, the tree house gets its name from the word ‘chantil’ which in classic nahuatl – Valley of Mexico’s habitants official language in the great Tenochtitlan - meaning house or room, and from the word ‘kuaulakoyokan’ which means ‘in the tree top’.
Design House is an annual event that stands out in the calendar of Design Week Mexico. This year’s edition takes an abandoned house that is transformed by interior designers and architects, each one restoring a room or outdoor area in their own style within the frame of the World Design Capital 2018. Broissin was in charge of the house’s access patio and transformed it into a micro forest with the small tree house over a centennial ash tree.
By popular cult the tree house is an element that refers back to childhood and the search of a space that is your own that grants us refuge, disconnection and that is the scenario of adventures and dreams. Conventionally it is constructed in wood and now we reinterpret it in crystal. In first place, to remember the innocence we have as children which fades over time, as the warmth of wood is now cunningly replaced by the coldness of glass. The diaphanous of the tree house also seeks to invite on a reflection about the security and privacy requested from a constructed space, elements that are sometimes compromised by the misuse of space at the hand of the user itself or by factors inherent to the architectural design, as is the case in this premeditated exercise.
Credits: Gerardo Broissin (Broissin), Loredana Croci (Broissin), Pablo Morales (Broissin)
Credits:
- Broissin - M. Arch - Gerardo Broissin
- Broissin - Arch - Loredana Croci
- Broissin - Arch - Pablo Morales
Design House is an annual event that stands out in the calendar of Design Week Mexico. This year’s edition takes an abandoned house that is transformed by interior designers and architects, each one restoring a room or outdoor area in their own style within the frame of the World Design Capital 2018. Broissin was in charge of the house’s access patio and transformed it into a micro forest with the small tree house over a centennial ash tree.
By popular cult the tree house is an element that refers back to childhood and the search of a space that is your own that grants us refuge, disconnection and that is the scenario of adventures and dreams. Conventionally it is constructed in wood and now we reinterpret it in crystal. In first place, to remember the innocence we have as children which fades over time, as the warmth of wood is now cunningly replaced by the coldness of glass. The diaphanous of the tree house also seeks to invite on a reflection about the security and privacy requested from a constructed space, elements that are sometimes compromised by the misuse of space at the hand of the user itself or by factors inherent to the architectural design, as is the case in this premeditated exercise.
Credits: Gerardo Broissin (Broissin), Loredana Croci (Broissin), Pablo Morales (Broissin)
Credits:
- Broissin - M. Arch - Gerardo Broissin
- Broissin - Arch - Loredana Croci
- Broissin - Arch - Pablo Morales
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