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Architects: MORO Taller de arquitectura, Taller Omar Almaguer
- Area: 775 ft²
- Year: 2022
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Photographs:Nicolas Million
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Manufacturers: Aceros Ocotlan, Cemex
Text description provided by the architects. The town of Tequila, Jalisco. It’s in the middle of the tequila industry and a thriving tourist destination. This has generated the disorderly growth of the city, with industrialized materials, with high energy consumption, the identity of one of the most emblematic towns in Mexico for having a "modern" concept of architecture and an agave landscape.
The Agave House proposal is based on the use of materials that arise from the tequila industry in construction elements such as: walls, finishes, accessories, furniture, doors, lighting, floors and stained glass windows.
With this idea, it was possible to integrate a proposal with the identity of Mexico and the place where it is built, due to the use of the land, the characteristic color of the place, sloping roofs and tiles. Also contemplating the needs of Toño, (a local Jimador), the orientation of the sun, the climate, the topography, the land of the place, which result in a house with Bioclimatic criteria, due to the use of cross ventilation, natural lighting, comfort and climate.
During the time of construction, it led to local people, students, etc. They will be interested in the use of these materials and construction systems. Serving as a place of training and giving the opportunity to expand constructive knowledge.
A house was also achieved with the use of eco-technologies such as:
Dry toilet: It’s a toilet that doesn’t use water, doesn’t pollute, doesn’t generate waste, doesn’t generate odors or flies, and results in human compost.
Wood stove and oven: Firewood is a little-used natural resource nowadays. This eco-technology prevents us from wasting natural gas, which is a hydrocarbon that took billions of years to form in the subsoil and when burned is released into the atmosphere quickly and easily.
Recollection of rainwater: The house has a conduit, a Tláloc type water filter from Urban Island and a 5000-liter storage cistern.
Electric boiler. Using this device it is possible to have hot water without the need to burn any hydrocarbon, garbage, firewood, etc.
