At the center of the historical center of Merida in Mexico, a abandoned structure has quietly turned into a quiet return. designed by VitarVistalcielo is a 155 square meter holiday home that re -explains the rhythm of indoor and outdoor living. Through careful balance of protection and modern intervention, the house invites light, air, and cools in every corner.
The house is just five meters wide and more than 30 meters long on a narrow urban lot. Instead of starting from scratches, the architects chose about 70% of the current structure, including its original masonry walls. He introduced six different modules, three enclosed spaces and a layout of three open-air petas, which produces a fluid infection between the indoors and outside.
This alternative rhythm allows natural light and airflow to move freely through space, while curly walls and skylight bring tenderness and lightness to the composition. The result is a house that feels calm and open, rather than being applied on it instead of its structure and setting.
Set beyond the entry park, anchor the social core of the kitchen. It is designed as an open, welcome place that flows beyond the ease -living area and the central courtyard. Clean lines, natural materials, and a winding kitchen countertop softens the space, while warm -day lights create an inviting environment for casual food and relaxing interaction.
The living room and dining area benefits from the layout of the household. Whether it is kept near the kitchen or in the courtyard, rest and food appear in a place that feels intimate and connected to outside. Minimum accessories and subtle textures focus on comfort, light and air movement.
Tuck in the rear garden, the pool provides a cool, shaded return. At the end of the spatial sequence, its placement creates a sense of discovery, and its simple geometry reflects the clean lines of architecture. Surrounded by regional stone and soft landscaping, the pool view is mixed in opposite and a place, mixing in its setting.
The house consists of two bedrooms: a guest suite located near the center of the house and a master suite back. Both are designed with privacy and peace. Soft natural light filters through steel-frame openings, while curved walls guide air and create a sense of gentle enclosure. The master ignores the suite pool, which connects comfort to refreshment.
The bathroom throughout the house is defined by the touch material and natural light. Crescent-shaped skylights frame the open sky, casting shifting patterns on lime-plastered walls and hand-prepared concrete surfaces. The design has yet been expressed, using local techniques using the blank places that once felt grounded and ether.
A sculpture spiral ladder tucked within one of the module connects various levels of the house. It only provides more than vertical circulation, it becomes a visual element that adds movement and softness to architectural composition. The curve echoes other design gestures throughout the project, which strengthens the subject of fluid infection.
At the top, the glass walls and doors, implicated in thin steel and painted in a sky-blue tone, add a sense of transparency and lightness, opening each room beyond the courtyard and garden.
The house stands as a thoughtful meditation on adaptive reuse. Instead of directing the past, Vente Diazage Architectos selected it to listen to it, allowing history, light and climate to shape their design.
