Inside a Breathtaking Cave Home Overlooking Mexico City

Architectural Digest

Today, AD travels to Mexico City to tour the iconic Casa Orgánica. Designed by architect Javier Senosiain, his work is dedicated to harmoniously bringing together humankind and nature. This harmony is demonstrated in how the home’s mesmerizing structure curves through the environment like a cave or a burrow, allowing the earth to grow over and around it. A true feat in organic architecture, join Senosiain as he takes you through how he came to design such a unique space.  Talent: Javier Senosiain Director: Skylar Economy Director of Photography: Gabriel Selassie Editor: Daniel Poler Producer: Renata Bernot Local Line Producer: Fernanda Preciado Line Producer: Joe Buscemi Production Manager: Melissa Heber Production Coordinator: Tanía Jones Camera Operator: Hugo Tirso Domínguez Martín Assistant Camera: Muller Figueroa Gaffers: Jose Luis Rojas Broco; Arturo Morales Sound Recordist: Daniel Arechiga Drivers: Rafael Luna; Jorge Mendez Catering: Cocina Amigo - Pame Roches Director of Creative Development: Morgan Crossley Director of Content: Keleigh Nealon Senior Producer: Alyssa Marino Williams Local Executive Producers: Ana Cardona; Constanza Perez Director, Post Production: Nicholas Ascanio Post Production Supervisor: Andrew Montague Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew Supervising Editor: Christina Mankellow Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow Colorist: Oliver Eid Special Thanks; Casa Orgánica Manager: Fernando Ugalde Architect: Adriana Giselle Cerón Casa Organica Manager: Armando Tejeda Marcelo

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10:34In part, the house, when we started to think about the spaces,

10:40and we imagined it a bit like in the primitive era,

10:44how man got into the caves,

10:47but that it doesn't have many needs

10:50as we have them today with globalization and consumerism.

10:55And it was one of the ideas of having few things.

10:59Yes, this house asked to integrate everything,

11:02and most of the furniture is integrated.

11:07What is the closet, the lamp,

11:12the lamp, for example, comes out of the closet,

11:16then we put some little triangles, thin rods that we were twisting,

11:21and from there the lamp was born.

11:25These pencils to put them,

11:28and you do it in the place.

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11:40I remember more than 25 years ago,

11:43in a talk I gave,

11:45in the end they asked me where architecture was going.

11:49And I told them that a trend was being seen

11:53towards the natural and towards the human,

11:56towards nature, because in the last 50 years

11:59it has been destroyed more than the 50,000 years before,

12:03and towards the human,

12:05because many times architecture is seen in some aspects

12:08almost as a ritual of permits,

12:11that it complies with regulations and financing, etc.

12:16And man is being lost, which is the most important thing.

12:20And well, time passed, and I do believe that every time

12:24we need to have more contact with nature.

12:28Man, in the end, is part of nature.

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12:41Children like games with movement.

12:46They like the soft movement of the swing,

12:50the movement of up and down,

12:53the movement of the swing,

12:55and older people like you,

12:57they like the movement of the roller coaster.

13:01I don't like the movement of the roller coaster anymore.

13:05I like the hammock.

13:07I like the soft movement of the hammock,

13:10but above all, that it adapts to the human body.

13:14The natural space of man is curved,

13:16just like that of animals.

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