Hidden Treasure
Mexico’s most revered architect designs a remote family hideaway in Careyes.
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Although Casa Triton looks like it sprang up out of the water at the sound of the god’s conch shell, Aldaco went to great lengths to make sure that he placed it in exactly the right spot. “I communicated with the soil, nature and with the view,” he says, and recalls walking the property with an assistant, who marked the boundaries with white cement. “I searched for optical relations and I measured the levels of the sun and shade in different areas.”BR>The design of Casa Triton places a premium on privacy: The 6,000-square-foot complex is comprised of six separate bungalows, three of which serve as the home’s sleeping quarters: Triton, Orguidea Azul (or Blue Orchids) and Flor de Luna (or Moon Flower) are joined only by paths that, according to the owner, are designed to “begin and end nowhere.”
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The palm leaf–thatched palapas were sited to take advantage of water views
from all sides. (Click image to enlarge)The interior of Casa Triton also reflects this design philosophy, as Aldaco designed most of the furniture. “One of the very important things in my work is the communion between interior and exterior spaces,” he says. “I make sure that the terraces, the furniture and windows are all in a natural order so that they are in sync with the rocks, the sea, the beaches and the mountains.” The result is a space so welcoming, so relaxing that the owner, who recently retired, cannot wait to spend more than his usual four weeks per year at Casa Triton. “I love the storms,” he says. “I love to read a book by the light of the lightning during a storm. It’s like Wagner. If you like Mozart, you go to the Caribbean.”
Marco Aldaco
+52.33.3642.66.64
maldaco@cybercable.net.mx
