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 intensive system for capturing and reusing rainwater!
Designer: Robert Hutchison Structure and Javier Sanchez Arquitectos
Positioned 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 consists of the primary 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 dwelling. The staff mentioned that permaculture rules have been used to “set up a holistic, built-in relationship between individuals and place”. Now what’s permaculture? It’s a portmanteau of everlasting agriculture and everlasting tradition and is an strategy to design and land administration that’s impressed by pure ecosystems.
All the constructions within the properties have been designed to seize and reuse rainwater and make sure that they’re conscious of pure assets, particularly water. “Right here, as within the surrounding area of Central Mexico, water has develop into an more and more valuable useful resource as temperatures rise and populations enhance,” the staff mentioned. “Rain Harvest House takes a unique tack, proposing an built-in strategy to designing regeneratively with water,” they continued. It occupies 1200 sq. toes and can be utilized all yr spherical. It has a beneficiant quantity of lined outside area and beautiful views of the encircling panorama on all sides.
The three constructions have been designed particularly to seize rainwater. Bioswales within the panorama make sure 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 staff 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 bogs, and to irrigate the on-site orchard,” the staff concluded.