This House Turns a Bad Location Into Its Best Idea

This beach house was not on the front row, and that changed everything.

Cal House, by BAAQ, sits behind other houses in a coastal community near Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Without the direct ocean view expected from a beach house, the design had to create its own internal world.

Instead of opening everything outward, the house organizes life around patios, shade, wind, and a concrete pool inserted at the center.

The bedrooms stay protected on the ground floor. The social area rises above, under a traditional palapa made with wood and palm leaves. A five-meter white wall with handmade latticework filters privacy and guides the ocean breeze through the house.

A beach house that proves being farther from the sea does not mean losing quality. Sometimes, it creates a smarter kind of architecture.

Architecture Firm: BAAQ'
Lead Architect: José Alfonso Quiñones
Collaborators: Inca Hernández
Location: Santa Elena El Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico
Area: 657 m²
Year: 2016
Photography: Edmund Sumner

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