A House That Breathes Under a Bamboo Roof

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Villa Cora, also known as Bamboo House in Tulum, is a tropical house in Mexico designed around one powerful idea: not isolating the home from the jungle, but allowing the jungle to become part of daily life.

Its main gesture is a large bamboo roof that works like a built canopy. It creates shade, filters sunlight, protects the living spaces, encourages ventilation, and shapes the atmosphere of the entire house.

In a hot, humid, and bright place like Tulum, comfort does not come only from closing everything off. It can also come from shade, air, height, materiality, and controlled openness.

Here, bamboo is not just decoration.

It is structure, filter, climate, and identity.

Villa Cora shows that a tropical house does not need to completely shut itself away from the environment to be comfortable. Sometimes, the strongest gesture is to create a large inhabitable shade, let air circulate, and allow nature not only to be seen — but to become part of life inside.

Architects: terrAurea studio
Lead Architects: Giovanni Presti
Area: 158 m²
Year: 2025
Location: Tulum, Mexico