Casa Cieneguita | San Miguel de Allende, Mexico | 2021
[Max von Werz + Ted Wolter]
Located in the countryside close to San Miguel de Allende, this project in collaboration with interior designer Ted Wolter entails the adaptive reuse and extension of a modest adobe brick structure for its future use as a private country house.
In order for the shift to adaptive reuse to be scalable and have a significant measurable impact on our environment, we believe that architects need to target not only monuments with historic or artistic significance but also ordinary everyday buildings. Demolition should become an absolute last resort, even for mundane architecture, even for quote-unquote bad architecture. The challenge of how to transform and reinvent this kind of non-descript architecture in order to give it a new lease on life is not only central to combating climate change but also holds surprising architectural potential. Text description by the architects.
Source: www.maxvonwerz.com
Photography by: César Béjar
Gross area: 355 m2
