Marine curves: using the traditional materials of the surrounding neo-vernacular seaside resort, this holiday house explores memories of the German organic and geological time.Ixtapa is in the state of Guerrero, some 250km up the coast from Acapulco, on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Its traditional name means 'the white sand place', and its climate ranges from humid, with heavy tropical rains on summer nights, when temperatures can reach 32C, to relatively dry in winter, when the average temperature is 26C. Almost every day of the year enjoys cloudless sunshine during daylight hours. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The resort, which has grown up over the past 30 years, has been planned with some care to take advantage of the idyllic climate. It has strong urban design (or at least appearance) rules, which include insistence on using natural materials and palapa pa·la·pa n. 1. An open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves. 2. A structure, such as a bar or restaurant in a tropical resort, that is open-sided and thatched with palm leaves. (tropical thatch), * or at least tejado (tiled) roofs. The clients for Fernando Romero's house wanted a place for family reunions, where everyone could enjoy the amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. site and sun. Romero's basic strategy was to make the ground floor into the general or public area, while the upper one is devoted to bedrooms for visiting family members. The tour de force is the very large living room that looks out over the evergreen garden, beach pool and sea through a huge, unglazed opening, made possible by the climate. The curving plan creates a diagram that seems to have the pattern of a rather complicated cell seen under a microscope. The great room opens to the south under a covered terrace. To the north are the more utilitarian service rooms and the master bedroom, the latter positioned so that the place can become a flat when no visitors are staying. In three dimensions, the space resembles a cave, gradually carved out from a massive boulder by the action of the sea. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the resort's rules demand, walls are sculpted sculpt v. sculpt·ed, sculpt·ing, sculpts v.tr. 1. To sculpture (an object). 2. To shape, mold, or fashion especially with artistry or precision: out of white rendered masonry, and there is a shallow thatched thatch n. 1. Plant stalks or foliage, such as reeds or palm fronds, used for roofing. 2. Something, such as a thick growth of hair on the head, that resembles thatch. 3. Dead turf, as on a lawn. tr.v. roof. The big span of the public area and the long cantilevers are, of course, generated by using an inner concrete structure that is masked by the flowing white masonry. The place is an evocative echo of the Einstein- Turm school of organic architecture strangely translated to the tropics tropics, also called tropical zone or torrid zone, all the land and water of the earth situated between the Tropic of Cancer at lat. 23 1-2°N and the Tropic of Capricorn at lat. 23 1-2°S. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Architect LCM/Fernando Romero Job architect: Alfonso Salem Design team: Fernando Romero Fernando Romero is a Mexican architect. He was born in Mexico City in 1971 and graduated in 1995 at Universidad Iberoamericana. He was president of the student society in 1994. Worked with OMA, with Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, Holland from 1997-2000. , Juan Pablo Juan Pablo is a common Spanish given name. It is the equivalent of "John Paul" in English or "Jean-Paul" in French. Some famous people with this name:
Structural engineer Fernando Carrillo Fernando Carrillo Roselli (born January 6, 1966 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan actor. He was married to fellow Venezuelan actress Catherine Fulop, whom he met on the set of Abigail, one of the most popular South American soap operas of the 80's. HOUSE, GUERRERO, MEXICO ARCHITECT LCM/FERNANDO ROMERO [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Traditionally, a palapa is an open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves: or any structure that is open-sided and thatched with palm leaves. |
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