CASA TO ISTANBUL AND LONDON MEETING IN MEXICO

Exposition Paris

Situated in southern Mexico, Casa To is a singular boutique lodge. Designed by Ludwig Godefroy, the venue gives solely nine suites, to favor the tranquility of its clients. As for its look, with its brutalist accents, the architect has designed a reinterpretation of an Oaxacan temple, to be able to generate a sensory expertise from the primary steps in Casa To. But that’s not all. The curvaceous structure additionally evokes two historic hydraulic buildings: the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, but in addition the Finsbury Park Reservoir in London, designed within the 19th century. A constructing filled with references that plays with the notion of interaction between intimacy and exposure, with inside views giving the feeling of being in an oasis closed by the sky, the load of the walls, and the vegetation of climbing crops and fruit timber.