OPEN SECRET
Nov 07, 2019
3 minutes
PHOTOGRAPHY: RORY GARDINER
WRITER: ELLIE STATHAKI
Entertaining spaces MEXICO Ascetic retreat
‘Casa Mérida is not a house with a garden. It is a garden with a house’
The first thing that stands out about Casa Mérida is its unashamed brutalism, defined by raw and omnipresent concrete, all hard edges and rough surfaces under the strong Mexican sun. The second is that most of the building seems to be open to the outdoors, with few fully enclosed spaces. The project’s defining feature, though, is that it is 80m
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