Aguacates House || Francisco Pardo Arquitecto || Valle de Bravo, Mexico

Aguacates House || Francisco Pardo Arquitecto || Valle de Bravo, Mexico Architects: Francisco Pardo Arquitecto Area: 442 m² Year: 2020 Photographs: Sandra Pereznieto, Diego Padilla Engenieer:Luis David Moctezuma, Alejandro Moctezuma Colaborators:La Metropolitana, Luz Design City:Valle de Bravo Country:Mexico Text description provided by the architects. A couple of hours outside of Mexico City, the rural lake town of Valle de Bravo sits in a valley between mountains, offering perennially agreeable weather and panoramic nature views. Within it, the site for Casa Aguacates — a residential project meant to function as a weekend retreat, and designed by architect Francisco Pardo — is a peculiar one, in which an avocado field slopes down into a dense forest and glen. “The main idea was to have a view of the forest, but the client also wanted to leave the avocado field intact,” explains Pardo, “which is how we arrived at the decision of burying the house.” Avocado trees sp