Casa El Espino
Valle de Bravo, México
A single-level house from 2025 on a slope between two ravines, where pine forest runs down to the lowland jungle around Valle de Bravo. The client asked for a one-storey house that hinted at a barn, and the social heart is exactly that: a gabled hall framed in black-stained timber where kitchen, dining, living and bar run together and open to the landscape, with three bedrooms along a corridor that steps quietly downhill.
The house is named for a single espino, a slow-growing native tree that survived construction and stands between the terrace and the pool; the architects call it the project's true gesture. The walls are pigmented concrete in the colours of the earth, under dark-stained pine ceilings, with weathered steel windows and floors of sandblasted stone brick.
Soler Orozco Arquitectos
A Mexico City practice led by partners Juan Soler and Alan Orozco, working mostly on residential projects.
Architecture @soa.mx. Interior design and styling @direccion.mx. Landscape design @aspj_mx. Photography @cesarbejarstudio. Seen via @beige.la.
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Researched August 2026. I credit each piece as carefully as I can; if you know more about this one, message me on Instagram.