CASA CO
Aagnes studio, JDEstudio
ARCHITECTS
Aagnes studio, JDEstudio
LEAD ARCHITECT
Javier Duenas Estrada
LEAD ARCHITECTS
JDEstduio
LANDSCAPE DESIGN
Marie-sant Illumination / Artefaux
DESIGN TEAM
Aagnes Studio
PHOTOGRAPHS
Luis Garvan
AREA
1600 m²
YEAR
2025
LOCATION
Guadalajara, Mexico
CATEGORY
Interior Design, House Interiors
English description provided by the architects.
Casa CO, designed by JDEstudio with interiors by Aagnes Studio, is conceived around the pursuit of beauty as a fundamental architectural principle.
Rather than treating beauty as a purely aesthetic quality, the project explores it as an organizing force: one that shapes space, materiality, and experience, allowing architecture to become a vessel for reason, spirit, and the sublime.
In today's architectural discourse, beauty is often perceived as a trivial and ineffable notion, something increasingly overlooked rather than consciously embraced.
Yet in the making of Casa CO, beauty is reestablished as both the point of departure and the core of the design process.
Here, beauty does not reside in surface-level sensory appeal, but in an order of existence that spans past, present, and future, shaping form, guiding proportion, and ultimately determining how space comes into being.
As the most direct expression of existence itself, this beauty does not rely on visual gratification, but arises from the resonance between structure, time, and thought.
Throughout the day, the house becomes a reflection of the sun, a being that transforms slowly yet with precision.
Light dictates the rhythm, marking the passage from morning to night.
At dawn, the first ray of sunlight filters into the gardens.
As the light touches the shadows cast by the garden's large trees, the water in the pool becomes a mirror, reflecting everything around it.
The house, in its initial silence, absorbs the light across its travertine surfaces, dissolving the boundary between interior and landscape.
Framed by lush vegetation, the threshold becomes a gradual transition rather than a defined edge, inviting a way of living that is deeply connected to nature and shaped by the quiet interplay of light, material, and place.
