Design House at Design Week Mexico, Mexico City

Photography, Jaime Navarro

JournalDesign

No Boundaries

The garden becomes part of the interior at Mexico City's glass-walled Design House...

Design House in Mexico City is an annual project run by Design Week Mexico in which renowned interior gurus are let loose on a property to investigate an area of interest; this year it’s Esrawe Studio looking at the relationship between the living spaces of a house and the garden. Landscape gardener Pedro Sanchez has prepared a lovely plot, but the question is how can it best be enjoyed from inside the house?

Esrawe Studio has removed the usual line-of-sight barriers – the exterior and interior walls – and replaced them with a “glass skin”. The garden, filled with aromatic plants and bushes, is now one of three areas intended to function as an organic whole, with the other two being a reading and contemplation area and a group entertaining area. This intervention retains pre-existing aspects of the house, such as the carved floral wall panelling, and artist Omar Barquet has embellished further with a painted flowering ivy design called Hedera that appears entwined with the carved sections.

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