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Architects: Di Frenna Arquitectos
Area: 518 m²
Year: 2018
Photographs: Onnis Luque
Suppliers: Hunter Douglas, Interceramic, VALVO, Cemex, Helvex

This is a front view of the house with two levels and a large driveway that leads to a car port on the right side of the main entrance.

This closer look at the house showcases the stone mosaic driveway that matches with the stone walls of the first level.

The stone walls are topped with concrete structures that are complemented by thin slat panels that glow warmly with the exterior lights.

This is a side elevation of the house with large stone walls and alrge dark brown wall with small windows.

This angled side view of the house shows the long planter on the side wall lining the side of the house to complement the earthy tones.

The earthy structures of the house are complemented by the warm lighting that matches the indoor with the outdoor.

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You can also see here the glass windows and walls of the second level with glimpses of the warm interior.

This angled side view gives a look at the back of the house and its structures.

This is the other side of the house with mosaic stone walls on the ground floor and large dark brown wall in the middle.

This is a view of the back of the house that has a large lush landscaped backyard with a grass lawn, small trees and shrubs.

This other side of the house has fewer and smaller windows with large expanses of its earthy walls.

This is a closer look at the back of the house showcasing the large glass walls and windows of the second level overlooking the backyard lawn.

This view of the back of the houses shows the warm glow of the interiors and exterior lights complemented by the earthy tone of the house and the backyard landscaping.

This is a closer look at the main entrance of the house with a set of steps on the side of the driveway that matches with the stone wall beside the main door.

This view of the back of the house showcases the covered patio fitted with an outdoor dining set topped with recessed lights.

Closer to the house, there is a small pool hidden behind a row of tall shrubs to separate it from the lawn.

The narrow and long pool is separated from the house with a line of planters adorned by the large stone wall of the house exterior.

This view of the pool shows the proximity of the pool to the covered patio.

This closer look at the covered patio shows the wooden dining set that matches the wooden ceiling with recessed lights and ceiling fans.

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This view of the covered patio features the steal beam columns at the corner that connects the elevated flooring and the wooden ceiling.

This is a look inside the covered patio with a large wood and steel dining table in the middle and an outdoor bar at the far side.

This wooden dining table is topped with a wooden shiplap ceiling with recessed lights and ceiling fans.

A few steps from the covered patio is the interior of the house with a large kitchen by the stairs.

This is a closer look at the stairs with floating steps, modern lighting and gravel underneath.

This is a view of the large L-shaped kitchen island from the vantage of the indoor balcony.

This is a view of the large kitchen with a tall ceiling and surrounding indoor balcony on its second level overlooking the kitchen island.

You can see here the wall on the side of the kitchen is filled with modern stainless steel appliances embedded into the wall.

This view of the kitchen showcases the bright white marble kitchen island that stands out against the dark hardwood flooring.

The white marble kitchen island has an attached wooden table at its end making an L-shape and matches the tone of the floor.

The attached wooden table at the far end of the white marble kitchen island is topped with a row of pendant lights.

A few steps from the edge of the kitchen island is the modern staircase that has modern lighting.

This closer look at the modern floating steps of the staircase showcases the bed of gravel underneath.

This is a far-off view of the house from the vantage of the large lake showing the lush landscape surrounding the house.

This is an illustration of the front elevation of the house showing the car port and entrance.

This is an illustration of the side elevation of the house showing the sections of the house inside the walls.

This is an illustration of the second level floor plan of the house featuring the different sections.

This is an illustration of the first level floor plan of the house featuring the different sections.

Casa Nicté-Ha was born from creating a set of volumes made up of a concrete matched to the tone of the earth in the area and mixing it with the same buried stone of itself, which they call “Piedra de potrero”.

It is a project in which the kitchen functions as the heart of the house, integrating it with the rest of the spaces in a double-height in order to make it a very familiar and interactive house.

The warm climate of the city of Colima led us to design it with many sets of levels and heights with integrated interior-exterior spaces.

General use was made of five materials: apparent beige concrete, local stone, steel beams, and wood, giving this naturalness to the house, achieving with these materials thermal insulation in all the walls for the warm climate of the City of Colima.

Each space is a block of the house, so its shape is created through the play of volumes of these, making an arrangement in which preference was given to the incredible views that this house enjoys, which are: a small Lake and the Colima volcano.

With this same game, the spaces were oriented to our convenience, taking advantage of the dominant airs and the sunlight.

At all times it is sought that the warmth of the wood has a great presence as a contrast to the materiality of the rest, creating a house with most of the finishes in a very handmade way. Very rough placement of the “paddock stone”, the forms of “lined with very fine strips” for the casting of the beige concrete walls and the carpentry with wood from the area to have a good performance. Breaking this with very exact materials on the outside with the steel beams and on the inside with kitchen cabinets.

The kitchen formed by a huge monolith of granite “cyanitus” and functioning as a central axis is integrated with the suspended staircase, bridges, integrated double-height spaces, corridors, living room, and outside with the terrace and pool creating a unique and this point being the surprise of Casa Nicté-Ha of any of the areas that are traveled.

On the first floor is the entire social area, leaving the entire second level for the private area, the bedrooms.

Nicté-ha comes from the Mayan, mythical origin of an aquatic plant with floating leaves and beautiful white flowers of delicate perfume, giving this name to the house because of its proximity and height to the lake on its back facade and its floating overhang on the front facade.