Mexican structure studio Pedro & Juana has unfolded the roof of a Valle de Bravo residence to put in a pine staircase, which connects to a residential extension superior at the web website online.

Pedro & Juana created the Wooden Annex as an growth of a preexisting shape on a sloped web website online in Mexico’s Valle de Bravo with the aid of using including a brand new -storey wood shape tucked into the hillside.

The authentic residence, designed with the aid of using architect José Iturbe withinside the 1980s, featured storeys with a huge blanketed terrace dealing with the lake.

Pedro & Juana left the substances and shape of the authentic constructing primarily intact, repairing it in locations and taking key factors along with the blue rafters at the terrace and repeating them withinside the addition.

Its number one intervention got here withinside the shape of the addition, which changed into comprised of kiln-dried pine in a traditional stick-body configuration. It provides extra bedrooms, kitchen space, and provider areas.

On the number one level, the kitchen changed into extended at the aspect of the vintage shape and unfolded to a newly configured outside courtyard, blanketed with rafters rendered withinside the identical shade as those withinside the authentic terrace. This courtyard connects the brand new and vintage structures.

But the clearly stand-out connection is the enclosed staircase that bridges the distance among the structures, reaching over the brick staircase that leads from the doorway up the slope down into the newly created courtyard.

Taking cues from the authentic stepped staircases that traversed the web website online, the studio used metal U-beams and a dried pine to create the passageway, which changed into punched thru the terracotta roof of the authentic shape.

“Since the residence is placed at the lowest of a mountain, the authentic residence is complete of stairs, which even function an indoors layout detail for potted plants and glass vases,” the studio instructed Dezeen.

“We have been stimulated with the aid of using them and desired to amplify that gesture onto the tunnel that connects each houses. Plus, it enables you get entry to the roof of the wood annexe while needed.”

Porthole home windows at the aspect of the staircase deliver mild into the pine-coated indoors.

The backside ground of the annexe consists of mechanical systems, at the same time as the higher ground expands the dwelling space.

Here, bedrooms and a dwelling region waft above the landscape, with an extra terrace located in the back of the shape.