Cuernavaca Centro

Bathrooms Cuernavaca

The need to build guest restrooms and a wine cellar made us question the traditional models.

The first part of the project was based on finding the right location within the property, which houses a historic house built more than a hundred years ago, located in the center of the city of Cuernavaca. At the back of the house, a large concrete slab suggests that it should become a garden again.

It is right there where the first action arises, lifting the concrete slab to get back in contact with the earth, lower the temperature considerably and begin the process that brings back the garden.

We place ourselves with the construction of three partition walls, which give shape to a dislocated triangle that embraces in its interior two cells of exactly the same dimension of each other. To the north, on one of its sides, one of these three walls, with the help of another wall of the house, forms a small cellar. Another of its faces is the one that closes the triangle.

Inside the small triangular pavilion, in this contained space, the cells with toilet, dressing room and shower function create a second level of contained space, if the user requires it, or, by folding the doors, the space expands and merges one with the other, creating a sort of almost labyrinthine space, where the body wanders to experience its function.

From the pavilion you can hear the rain and smell the moss, in harmony with nature, a series of wooden columns, doors, dim lighting and bricks on the floor are enough to release the waste water from the sink and shower, in order to avoid the installation of drainage.

In accordance with this conception in which nature and space seem to nourish each other, there is no drain, the water returns to the garden.