Colar revives adobe structure to create pared-back home in Mexico
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Relevance
14/25
Freshness
24/25
Authority
18/20
Brand Signal
11/15
Depth
6/15
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Architecture studio Colar has updated and extended a dilapidated adobe structure to create a single-storey home in Chiapas, Mexico. Named Casa Estelí, the 162-square-metre dwelling combines the revived adobe structure with two new brick volumes, each sheltered beneath an expansive, self-supporting timber roof. Colar centred the project around preserving the existing adobe structure, which involved
