The Challenge of Outdoor Living
Our life revolves around cooking, eating and entertaining. As such, a flexible, well-connected dining and sitting room that acts as the primary living space is important. Our goal is to create a lush and comfy outdoor living room in the central courtyard that can fully open up and tie the main house and kitchen together.
We admittedly have not done a very good job commicating our vision. This is due in part to the fact that it’s not yet clear in our own heads. We do, however, imagine it to eventually feel like the living room shown above. At 103, a firm located in Mexico City, renovated this 1950s house in Acapulco, opening it up completely toward the water and making it a truly wonderful space in which to relax and entertain.
Like Acapulco, the major problem with creating a fully open living room in Mérida is the weather. While outdoor living works well on a still night in November, it poses problems when the wind picks up in the winter or the heat and humidity become a constant in the summer. Figuring out how to live outside all year round is therefore the challenge. We have ideas for an enclosure system that slides into place when necessary to protect the living room. We will post more once we fully develop this concept.
