Three hundred and sixty-degree views of hills, mountains, and ridges connect the user with the horizon from the terrace at the top of the house. The interior is distinct, with robust reddish atmospheres, patios, and landscaped spaces that invite a calmer, more intimate, and disconnected life.

Ederlezi is the name of the celebration that marks the beginning of spring in the Balkans and Turkey. It is a break from the gray winter that manifests itself with music, dance, and flowers. The contrasts between the greenery of the vegetation with the red tones of the walls, the tezontle of the gardens, and the gates seek to perpetuate the warmth and movement of that time of year and emulate memories of desert and Mediterranean landscapes present in conversations with clients during the design process. From the particularity of its volumetrics and the mysteries and surprises that define its paths, the personality of the house is constructed, deeply similar but different from its context, combining classic elements of northwest architecture such as the base and the proportion of the openings with more abstract contemporary elements.

 Built on a narrow plot of five meters wide and twenty meters deep in the historic center of San Pedro Garza in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, the house is organized through a backbone of circulations and services along the boundary and a central courtyard that divides the program into two volumes. The first facing the street contains the entrance hall, garage, double-height guest room with a mezzanine, and a rooftop terrace. In the second at the rear, there is the living room, dining room, kitchen, a blue patio that tops the end of the land, and the main bedroom that has access to a landscaped terrace. While the plan is born from a rational sequence of squares, the section is more dynamic with steps, platforms, overlaps in the gates, and grecas that end with the red zigzag that forms a containment towards the street and solves with its façade the current restrictions on heritage and conservation.

 Facing the challenges and opportunities of housing in heritage areas in growing cities, the Ederlezi house reconciles notions such as the fluidity of an ethereal and open space with the privacy that allows separating life from the streets and boundaries with what happens inside. The project seeks to blur the routine from the diversity of experiences it offers and, in turn, rethink the cadastral condition of the long and narrow plots in this area as a fertile typology to explore with volumes that are perforated, carved, and excavated in a stereotomic dialogue between the personality of the user, the house, and the mountain.