Designed by Robert Hutchison Structure and Javier Sanchez Arquitectos, the Rain Harvest House, or Casa Cosecha de Lluvia is nestled within the rural city of Temascaltepec, which lies about 140 kilometers west of Mexico Metropolis. The household nature retreat options an in depth system for capturing and reusing rainwater!
Designer: Robert Hutchison Structure and Javier Sanchez Arquitectos
Situated within the mountains of Mexico, the Rain Harvest House was designed for the founding father of Javier Sanchez Arquitectos and his household, who plan to make this their everlasting residence within the close to future. It contains the principle home, an artwork studio, and a bathhouse. Bio-agriculture gardens, an orchard, and a community of pathways have been the assorted landscaping parts included within the house. The workforce mentioned that permaculture rules have been used to “set up a holistic, built-in relationship between folks and place”. Now what’s permaculture? It’s a portmanteau of everlasting agriculture and everlasting tradition and is an method to design and land administration that’s impressed by pure ecosystems.
All the buildings within the properties have been designed to seize and reuse rainwater and be certain that they’re aware of pure sources, particularly water. “Right here, as within the surrounding area of Central Mexico, water has change into an more and more treasured useful resource as temperatures rise and populations improve,” the workforce mentioned. “Rain Harvest House takes a distinct tack, proposing an built-in method to designing regeneratively with water,” they continued. It occupies 1200 sq. ft and can be utilized all yr spherical. It has a beneficiant quantity of lined outside area and beautiful views of the encompassing panorama on all sides.
The three buildings have been designed particularly to seize rainwater. Bioswales within the panorama be certain that water is directed to the property above, and below-ground reservoirs have been put in the place water is captured and purified. “The on-site water remedy system is totally self-contained and primarily gravity-fed, containing 5 cisterns that present potable and handled water,” the workforce mentioned. “A chemical-free, blackwater remedy system treats all wastewater on-site, returning it to the positioning’s water cycle as greywater to be used in bathrooms, and to irrigate the on-site orchard,” the workforce concluded.
