Casa Ayehualco Miranda
Bed & breakfast · Tepoztlán ·
Architect-designed house with stone, adobe, and hardwood connecting to landscape
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cerrada meztli, Carr. Amatlán 3, 62525 Cuernavaca, Mor., Mexico Get directions
Architect-designed house with stone, adobe, and hardwood connecting to landscape
cerrada meztli, Carr. Amatlán 3, 62525 Cuernavaca, Mor., Mexico Get directions
"Over the course of 40 years, Mexican architect Diego Villaseñor and his wife, landscape architect Ana María Maldonado, built this five-bedroom house on the outskirts of this town 90 minutes south of Mexico City. Leaning into building materials like locally sourced stone, adobe, and indigenous hardwood, the structure references the surrounding tropical and temperate forests and the craggy Sierra de Ajusco-Chichinauhtzin range nearby. Casa Ayehualco's architecture creates moments that invite deep connection with the landscape, like a cool, dimly lit stone passageway ending in a courtyard that perfectly frames the nearby peaks. The artwork has a similarly elements-first ethos: A terra-cotta tunic by Xawery Wolski hangs in the kitchen, while traditional folk-art figurines—in this case little ceramic reinas, or queens, with scenes of rural life exquisitely depicted on their dresses—decorate the living room."
"From the outdoor dining table, I see the mountains of the protected Chichinautzin Biological Corridor in full view as I tuck into a traditional breakfast of blue corn tortillas, fried eggs, avocado, and salsa made from smoked chipotle peppers; copal burns in the distance, its smoke wafting through the surrounding oak trees, and save for birds, it’s utterly silent. Set just 20 minutes away in the neighboring village of Amatlán de Quetzalcoatl, this five-bedroom home—once the private country estate of the Mexican architect Diego Villaseñor and his wife, the landscape architect Ana María Maldonado—is now available for private bookings for the first time ever. Paying homage to Amátlan’s sacred landscape, the property, which took around 40 years to finalize, is a contemporary expression of the area’s vernacular elements, built almost entirely from locally sourced adobe, stone, and red clay molded into its rooftop tiles, and its interiors celebrate Mexican design, with pieces including green copper-oxidized pottery made by artisans in Tzintzuntzan in Michoacán." - Michaela Trimble
Manuel M.
Belen H.
