luxury home

Casa Jacarandas in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico was designed by Hernandez Silva Arquitectos to take advantage of the warm climate by creating zones that are located both inside and outside of the home at the same time. 
The 3-storey vertical garden is the main feature of the indoor-outdoor connectivity, starting just behind the open carport and continuing past creating a feature wall for the outdoor corridor in the center of the home. Even the driveway leading to the carport is filled with greenery adding a further connection of the landscape to the architecture.

The dining and living zones have only one small plant within the volume, but the floor to ceiling glazings allow the landscape beyond to permeate the space.

The social zone opens up to a terrace via the bifolding glass wall and while the terrace is outdoors, an overhang finished in the same steel frame and clear finished wood that the architects used in the carport shelters it.

The master suite is a bump out within its private terrace and both walls of glazings slide back and out of the way to create a bedroom that is as much a part of the outdoors as it is part of the inside. Adding to this duality of indoor-outdoor moments are two specimen trees positioned on a platform with there own ceiling void to grow through.

The stairwell is not the only location within the home that enjoys a vertical garden. The kitchen is a visceral treat with its vertical plantings and marble island.

The stairs behind the carport and overlooking the vertical garden continue to all 3 levels of the home.