The project´s name is born from the functional and schematic distribution of the design, separating the private areas from the public ones with 2 robust main volumes, connected by the main entrance. The solution for Casa Chak-Ká (two reds) comes from the research and deep analysis of the users, considering their lifestyle, future plans, and everyday life in the property. Towards the street, we projected a closed, private and pushed back facade, obtaining intimate spaces, emphasized by the highest volumes, giving the red elements hierarchy, which are the ones that provide protection to the members of the family, who are the main protagonists of the house. On the back facade of the house, views are guided towards the golf course, considering the optimal orientation to provide natural lighting and achieve a thermal comfort control.
In the interior of the house, we seek for the connection to the outside, using floor to ceiling windows on the ground level, where the social spaces are located, this way they take in views of the trees and the pool. The site is characterized by its preexisting vegetation in the back, which wraps the project in the Yucatecan jungle, giving them privacy from the golf course, without compromising the views. In the same way, concrete screen walls were implemented, on strategic points of the project, where it was important to maintain privacy, but allow natural light and ventilation.
The striking color that characterizes this project, and the contrast with white, takes us to remember the colors depicted on the colonial haciendas, although we stive to use this characteristic applied to contemporary architecture. The use of color allowed us to play with the perspectives of the house, which, being surrounded by the local vegetation, it contrastingly appears through its different viewpoints. The color and material choices was realized hand in hand with the users, this way the project achieves its own personality, involving them directly into the creative process, we created a heightened sense of ownership.
