Casa La Blanca, Stunning Mexican lattices House by Di Frenna Arquitectos

Date of Publishing: July 23, 2021

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Casa La Blanca designed by Di Frenna Arquitectos, is a luxurious modern home located in Colima, Mexico. Indeed, with over 3,500 square feet of living spaces, the architect’s design does plenty of things right. Most notable is the strong connection to the landscape outside as one will notice immediately. Besides, the external of this house is impressive with stunning lattices which used as a skin to protect the house, giving privacy, security, effects of light and shadow indoors and outdoors.

Also, this home offers high end amenities with infinity pool, the living area with wonderful idea of living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. In addition to this, the open space its defined by heights and unevenness. The house distribution helps to create a family environment and a inside outside living surrounded by one of the fundamental parts of the project, the vegetation, highlight the huge trees of Parota and its tropical environment.

The Architecture Design Project Information:

Project Name: Casa La Blanca
Location: Colima, Mexico
Project Year: 2018
Area: 342 m²
Designed by: Di Frenna Arquitectos

The house bets on a completely interior environment with its “U” shaped floor. As a result, it separates both the social and coexistence space on the ground floor and the private space on the upper floor. Besides, the lattices molded by hand in white concrete, fade into their walls trying to integrate to create a uniform body within the volume of the house.

The “U” shape located in a way to protect itself from sunning. So, it creates an interior patio that gave the same terrain by having a tree known as “papelillo”. Because of the red bark that released as flakes in the different seasons.

Casa La Blanca, Stunning Mexican lattices House by Di Frenna Arquitectos

Indeed, the red tree, the pool and a fountain create the heart and center of the house.

The Casa La Blanca Gallery:

Text by the Architects: A lattice screen fading in the white walls by day, at night a screen of light and shadows is presented on the façade of Casa la Blanca. One of the typical Mexican lattices, widely used for decades in the State of Colima, within its cities and on the coast to protect itself from the intense sub-humid warm climate and its strong climatic changes. It is used as a skin to protect the house, giving privacy, security, effects of light and shadow indoors and outdoors.

Photo credit: Lorena Darquea| Source: Di Frenna Arquitectos

For more information about this project; please contact the Architecture firm :
– Add: Tercer Anillo Periferico #137, Plaza Aria Local 5, Residencial Esmeralda Nte., 28017 Colima, Col., Mexico
– Tel: +52 312 223 3197
– Email: matia.di.frenna@hotmail.com