There’s a Stone in the Middle of the House | Casa Piedra Acapulco

Stone House (Casa Piedra Acapulco) is located in Brisas Marqués, a residential neighborhood on a peninsula between the traditional Acapulco Bay and Puerto Marqués Bay in the state of Guerrero. The essential characteristic of this complex is that it is located in a deposit of granite rocks of great antiquity that define the type of soil in the bay. On a 1000-square-meter site, located 100 meters above sea level and 300 meters from the sea limit, the almost regular and constrained site presented a couple of major challenges to solve. First of all, to preserve as far as possible the rocky spirit found, an immense sea of stones, particularly two enormous pieces of more than two meters in diameter in the center of the terrain. The second, dilute the scale of the house in the topography with more than 17 meters of difference in level from the lowest point; looking for the equilibrium point where the sea appeared, the wind flowed and the existing rock at the heart of the project slipped under the po