D’Acosta and Turrent joined a 1940s American mobile home with a Mexican office trailer to make a comfortable, inexpensive dwelling that seems to float on the land. Recycled aluminum doors and windows came from second-hand shops in Ensenada. An open-air aluminum-and-wood pavilion they reclaimed from an old factory is covered with carizzo, a cane grass, taken from their neighbor’s trash. Recycled telephone poles support the structure; recycled beams from an old bridge make up the deck. “All vernacular architecture depends on what you have at hand," D'Acosta says. "We need to train our eyes to convert things near us into usable objects.”
20 April 2009
Architecture in Baja
D’Acosta and Turrent joined a 1940s American mobile home with a Mexican office trailer to make a comfortable, inexpensive dwelling that seems to float on the land. Recycled aluminum doors and windows came from second-hand shops in Ensenada. An open-air aluminum-and-wood pavilion they reclaimed from an old factory is covered with carizzo, a cane grass, taken from their neighbor’s trash. Recycled telephone poles support the structure; recycled beams from an old bridge make up the deck. “All vernacular architecture depends on what you have at hand," D'Acosta says. "We need to train our eyes to convert things near us into usable objects.”
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