Architectural project: Estudio Atemporal
Location: Cuadrilla de Dolores, Valle de Bravo, Estado de México
Area: 671 m2
Year: 2025
In response to the noise of the city and its accelerated rhythms, the project emerges from a fundamental impulse: a return to the ground.
More than a dwelling, the project is conceived as a refuge—a spatial mediator that reconnects the inhabitant with the site. Architecture relinquishes its protagonism to become an instrument of dialogue with the forest, its cyclical processes, and the latent intelligence of the natural environment.
Design operates as a translation of nature’s ancestral logic into spatial systems that support and complement human inhabitation. Architecture is understood here as a ritual of belonging and reconnection. This is not merely a place to be occupied, but one to be experienced and celebrated.
The project calls for a reduction to the essential: direct contact with the ground, material honesty, and a renewed awareness of time as the ultimate luxury. Architecture becomes an intentional gesture—an act of rooting within a world that has momentarily forgotten its own fertility.
Form is the result of attentive listening to the site. Structural elements rise among oaks and pines; protective roof planes define sheltered voids. Volumes are lightly deployed, maintaining a minimal footprint and allowing the terrain to remain uninterrupted. Thresholds frame controlled views of the forest canopy and the sky, reinforcing a continuous relationship between interior and exterior.
The built intervention does not compete with the landscape; it reveals and intensifies it. The spatial sequence reinforces a fundamental understanding of our condition: inhabitation as participation within a system far greater than the individual.
