Ortega House | ROW Studio

Located at the urban core of Cancun, we designed a house that takes advantage of the ideal solar orientations. Divided in to two levels departing from a pure platonic solid, covered in three of its faces with a costume made patterned concrete screen. These screens serve the dual purpose of giving privacy to the interior and to protect it from the sun light, thus lowering the energy use and allowing for natural ventilation for as much as possible. At the ground level a series of subtractions create a covered terrace in the two garden facades and the access in the remaining front. The covered terrace runs parallel to the façade in the direction of the swimming pool and in a diagonal axis at the other front of the garden, directing the views from the interior. The swimming pool, formed by a single lane, is covered in mosaics with a pattern of thick diagonal strips that continue from the surface of the patio, to the interior of the pool and towards the wall.