GG House

The GG house project arose from a very particular commission. Our client, a man
middle-aged bachelor, wanted to build a weekend house in a forest clearing,
on a property in the mountain. In addition to the topographic conditions, we find
that the project involved unusual privacy requirements that allowed a
more open relationship between spaces and surroundings.
The house is situated on steep terrain with views of a plain between mountains and the volcano of
Colima in the distance, which can be seen above the tops of the oaks. Topography
uneven terrain was a determining factor for the configuration of the project; the
complex was resolved on a succession of terraces that were carved into the hill, and
linked by a zigzag path.
The property is accessed from the highest point. The vehicles travel on a path that
cuts the slope down to a garage that sits on an intermediate terrace and
plunges the hill, framed by a portal of stone. The roof of the house, the first
facade that confronts the visitor, is glimpsed between trees like a concrete slab covered with gravel and reveals the broken profile of the building.
From the garage there is a staircase of rectangular stone tiles, of variable dimenssions, arising from a tapestry of gravel that alludes to the roof and seems to suggest that the
building is an extrusion of the terrain itself. At that moment the front façade of the
house, which is lined with a lacquered steel plate that is anticipated to age on a whim
own, like the rest of the materials. Over time the plate will lose its luster and go away.
oxidizing, changing in the same way that its environment does, and it will leave a trace of
rust on the stone that will end up being confused with the region's characteristic red-colored earth.
The program of the house was resolved in a rectangular plan that is inserted in one of the
cuts to the ground. The resulting volume is a prism that sits respectfully on the
terrain, oriented in a transverse direction to the slope of the hill and exposing its longest side towards the views. It was decided to make an inflection more or less to the center of the volume, just
in the entrance space, to create a break that is repeated in the north facade to allow
that a larger outdoor terrace spaceto have views of the Colima's Volcano.