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Jesús & Ulrike House
A net-zero, off-grid retirement home in Malinalco, set among gardens, ponds and wooded hills.
The house reflected in a lily pond beneath wooded hills.
- Practice
- MCxA
- Year
- 2024
- Photographer
- Rafael Gamo
The project
MCxA designed this 435 square metre retirement home in Malinalco as an almost fully autonomous living system, where architecture, landscape and infrastructure work as one. The house runs off-grid, harvesting its own water, treating wastewater on site and generating its own solar power.
Low timber and white volumes sit among wild gardens beside a lily pond, with a long timber pergola sheltering an outdoor dining table and a plunge pool facing the hills. The project received the Green Good Design Award in 2026 and was completed in 2024.
A long timber pergola sheltering an outdoor dining table.
A plunge pool beside a timber-clad volume.
A bedroom with full-height glazing onto the trees.
The house lit at night across the pond.
Credits
- Architects
- MCxA
- Photographer
- Rafael Gamo
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