Modern home in Mexican plateau revives ancient water harvest
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2019
- In the slope of Tepozteco mountain, Meztitla (Náhuatl for “place near the moon”), Casa Meztitla is in a never ending relationship with nature, harvesting/filtering water the way it was done in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Surrounded by subtropical rainforest that remains untouched, its inhabitants believe that what the land gives should be returned to the property.
In an area with no public water supply and a rainy season that lasts only from July through September/October, the home uses only the water it can capture and reuse from the property. Water flows through an intricate system of filtration. Two main (or three including the pool) water reservoirs exist: the potable water reservoir covered by the grass patio, and the open-air reservoir (using aquatic plants, fish and a pump) for irrigation which resembles “cenotes”, open air water sources sacred to Mayans.
The water system relies on gravity and can store 30,000 liters; it provides enough water for the house all year round. Conceptually, this storm water management captures every drop of rain that touches the property (3800 square meters), uses it in different ways, and does not let a drop out. The result is abundant water and land that is constantly irrigated in a region with seasonal droughts.
EDAA Architects- Luis Arturo García: edaa.mx/en/casa-meztitla/
Drone footage:
Inside cenote: Kaveh Kavoosi www.spectrums.me/10
Cenote wide shots: / @sanjaalcorps
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Man they have it down pat. No water wasted at all, it can all be used and reused. The rest of the world could take lessons. Especially those western states that are draining their rivers and lakes and doing nothing to renew them.
France2107 wow way to blast the United States of America. As a true American there is only one thing I can say, your right. Not enough people know what it’s like to live without access to water or the importance of saving it. Though we are better than we were 20 years ago.
Someone Just Like You I was really expecting that to go in a different direction lmao
Thats hard to do to provide for the number of people here though. That set up was just them.
@C D Not really. *1)* Harvesting rain water isn't a luxury reserved for _"multimillionaires"_ at all. *2)* Is an inversion for your health, the environment and your budget. *3)* You can build your own setup, your imagination is your limit, not the budget. *4)* _Harvesting the rain water _*_DOES_*_ help to recharge not only the rivers but also the aquifers,_ since all the rain-water that a house (either in rural or urban areas) could catch within his roof is a relatively very small portion and then it would be slowly released within the landscape, that has been proved over and over to benefit the recharge of aquifers, rivers, re-green the desert, it could be used to grow food for a family, etc. *Check Brad Lancaster,* he talks about all that in a masterful and very practical way.
this is a multi million dollar facility fool
I'm an architect from india and I really appreciate and thank to the owner for water reservation by using excellent method.
thanks to the architect also.
as the guy say in the last we should give back to nature as it has given us😊👍👌💐
I think México and India should collaborate more often and share ideas on sustainable housing - both urban and rural! 👍🏽
@@MiguelJuanez agree for sure
I always find Mexican food lil bit similar to Indian food
Pretty
@@general_pinochet I prefer Mexican, honestly.
Mexico truly is one of the most beautiful counties in the world, immense natural and cultural diversity!
robert lautner to bad mafias and drug lords own the place
Thanks Robert if you wish you can visit me and stay in my home with your wife or friend. I'm live in State of Mexico, but all my family lives in Yucatan and Quintana Roo. And Tepozteco is very near from my house (two hours). It's safe don't worry.
@@relentlessviper2073 How is that different from here?
CharlieHipHop who said it was?
@AnotherOne you are fuking ignorant
We need more videos from Mexico. They are our neighbors and we could learn a lot from them.
Anthony C Brown - With all do respect, there is No need to learn from us; just turn your heads around the Native American People; they also have lots of ancient knowledge about mother nature & balance!!
But I appreciate your comment!
We can both learn from each other (:
Wait for the wall wont be able to see anything from South of border
bobo
welcome to Mexico anytime Mr Brown..
Love Mexico...One Of My Favourite Places On The Planet...Bravo...
Which is why I plan to retire there. The people are so nice. Compared to how they're treated here. You'd think they wouldn't be. Go figure.
Thanks for loving my country. Tepoztlan is a great place, very interesting and mystic place
@@DraAyora Mexico is just magical. You guys are in my humble opinion the most beautiful people on earth.
I've not once had a bad experience and was almost always treated like family every time I visited.
I am making plans to retire there and want to open a small art gallery.
@@DraAyora Well I'm in Tucson AZ now so I used to cross frequently for day trips but Trump has the border all messed up and it can take several hours to cross back into Nogales AZ.
I hope that changes soon. I miss my day trips to Nogales Sonora.
@@danthomas6587 behind to the Donald Trump is George Soros and his power. I hope the situation change for every person in our countries. Our presidents sucks
That’s a dream home wow 😍 . I love Mexico 🇲🇽 .
Thanks for loving my country.
Wow...what an amazing place! It is so inspiring to see the lengths these people have gone to work WITH Nature and Life; to be in harmony with Nature. Beautiful.
Is the water drink able the water that enters the property and land ?
This is one of the best homes I've seen. Very environmentally functional and beautiful to live in.
Fascinating!!! Somewhere between a science project, modern architecture, and high art. I think I'm in love.
Well said 👌
BRAVO FOR MEXICAN TALENT!
Omar Peres we need Mexican talent in usa
No question. I studied architecture and Mexican architects are some of the most innovative in the world.
Google: Felix Candela
@@luisbv0 ....were you born with the face or did you have an accident...plastic surgery needed it
This is an ECO-FRIENDLY HOUSE 100% SELF-SUFFICIENT! Excellent architectural design. Love it!
not sure about ECO FRIENDLY §§§§§🙃🙃🙃
Thanks for loving my country. All the world is amazing. God give us incredible things in our world.
Que hermosa casa y sobretodo que chulo es mexico
Holy smoke... this is so astonishing that I can't wrap my head around it!
If just every ten of us were as concerned about the environment as this man, we wouldn't have to face global warming.
Kirsten, I have watched alot of your videos. I think this one is one of the most interesting.
I love this! I don't understand any dislikes on this video. What is there to dislike? These folks have created a well thought out, sustainable system.
I love this home, I would live in it the same way let nature run its course.
I love how the project respects the nature and makes the inhabitants live with it in peace and harmony, benefitting both. I wish all houses were built that way. What a blessing to live in such a house!
Amazing. Nice to see a more local / Maya inspired designed house. Very refreshing and beautiful. Thanks!
I love Mexico
same here
me too ( im mexican ) lo
Thank you 😊 and love those who love OUR MEXICO ❤️ TOO
Me too im a filipino.
I’m so happy you did a video in Mexico ❤️
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Muy interesante el vídeo en español, muchas gracias, ojalá haga más vídeos así
Much love and appreciation to all for honoring Our Planet!!
Go. Una casa integrada a su entorno y autosuficiente. Obras así deberían ser, hacer, estar para el bien tener un hábitat confortable y con pleno respeto a su entorno. Muchas felicidades ! ! !
Primera vez que veo una casa así .
La naturaleza es maravillosa.
Que ideas más excelente
Lo felicito
Mexico, a natural paradise. where life arises through nature.
This is the most amazing video I have ever seen. I could watch this 15 times and still learn something new. What incredible knowledge of the natural world. The way we all should be living.
That is an amazing house, and a glorious location. How magical.
Water is Life. It seems they have more work, probably more money invested in the water systems than they do in the structures. Truly self sustained. Really nice.
Morelos in the Eternal Spring land I'm so thankful that I was giving the opportunity to be raised there and wondered in its jungles 😁
@Castle Floorworks that's you
Spectacular sustainable design !!! Love all the nature 🌿🏡💚✌🏻️
I love the intimacy with nature, gorgeous views
Wonderful low-tech and yet complex water capture and filtration process. Love the ethos to nature emphasis!
How can this have any dislikes its pure genius creativity and conservative 👏👏👏
Some people are just envious, cause they can't have it!
Good stuff really love Mexican architecture more of these please!
Kudos to this Señor that know ALL THE INFO! So helpful and joyful.. the true mexican spirit!
Felicidades al señor!! Amamos Mexico!!! Congratulations for this man! We love Mexico!!
Pure Mexican talent; many countries can learn from their design and ingenuity on passive architecture, Lots of respect for what they accomplished with this house. I hope I can see more of this, thank you for sharing.
carlito it is just one house, not the southern border
@Will Black sweetie, you xanax. and your rage is amusing. you need a bone
This is an incredible home with extremely sophisticated water filtration system I love it love love love it💖💖💖 thank you for posting it!
Como México NO HAY DOS!!!! VIVA MÉXICO!!!!! 😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😇😘😘😇😇😘😘😇😘😞😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘😇😘
Thank you so much for doing this video and showing us! I am very impressed by The Architects and saving their contact info. It's a perfect combination of living with nature, having a modern and off-grid combo, minimalized approach, with the purpose of living sustainable!!!!
I added it to my channel for others to help them on their ideas for alternative living.
Bravo mexico. Linda casa. 🌲🍀🌼🌸🌟🌹💝🎉🌴🌴🌴🌴💎📷😍👏👏👏👏👏🌸💝💝💝💝
Me encanta el contacto y la conexión que tiene con la naturaleza. Y como cuida el agua! Felicidades! Ojalá todos fuéramos más como ellos : )
Excelente trabajo, una casa así sin ruido de autos 🚙
So glad to see the real Mexico, brilliant minded, clean, resourceful! Different than what people think about us.
This is beautiful. At 48,000 gallons, that's massive. A comparison between the earthship water design and this could make a nice hybrid system. They are very close with only a few differences. There was no mention of grey water toilets and the saltwater pool output will require a different set of plants down the watershed in a permaculture design.
He did mentioned the system for gray water, the translation wasn't there.
Basically he runs the gray water into the yard/lawn, he mentioned that's how he keeps it green.
But 48,000gals iiis a lot...man
Wow! Wow! Wow! That's another place like heaven. 🥰
Muy bueno el sistema de aguas y el cuidado y agradecimiento con la naturaleza
Loved this. Just last night finished reading THE OVERSTORY, and this house, this beautiful philosophy, goes right to the heart of it all; Respect nature and it will give you all that you need. I hope many people watch this.
Wow. Amazing house! Really impressed by this sustainable design, and I watch a LOT of videos on sustainable houses.
¡Felicidades! Que bendición y que inteligentes aprovechan todo de la naturaleza 👏
This is how we all should live! What a great way to use our natural resources and incorporate it into our lifestyle.
que hermlsa casa ...esa zona es linda en Morelos.... gracias ojala el mundo pueda reciclar mas el agia de esa forma y conservar la vida y naturaleza .
What a brilliant design!
Beautiful landscape and conservation... Outstanding segment... Thank you.
This fellow is a genius .. I've never seen anything like it or someone as passionate about Nature in the modern world as he is. Thank you so much for posting
Wonderful video, so many people do not know, or do not care about saving water.
We do everything we can i.e. never brush our teeth in running water. Use the bidet for an all over wash. e.t.c. collect all rainwater and so on.
I so hope this video could be seen by everybody that needs to see it ! CONGRATULATIONS :)
5:58-6:01 please don’t tell me I was the only one that saw that poor kid fall down from the hammock.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
That kid is practicing his inner spiderman skills! Lol
0:53-1:02 After a 6 pack
You _are_ the only one! 😂😂😂
me too 😅
He was only about a foot off the ground and it looked like he fell in the grass. Got right up unhurt.
👍😍Awesome! 💝His voice is so calming. That house is so calming. That area is so calming. I’m going to go there. I must! 🤗💞🤗
True. His voice is so calming. So much green and the house that is beautiful. it's a combo to relax
I don't know how you find these absolutely lovely "homes". Each unique and one of a kind. This was absolutely a pleasure to watch. Stunning! Thanks Kirsten for another inspirational view!
All I can say is : WOW on a Grand Scale ! Kirsten you find joy ! thank you
Wow this is the first time I've been in a comment section where I see so many people saying nice things about my country for once. That you guys, even though a lot of Americans hate Mexico and Mexicans us Mexicans have always loved American culture and people and we take inspiration from U.S for a lot of things. We need to work together like neighbors to restore our planet
I love your country. But I think Airbnbs -- everywhere in the world -- are a cancer.
Felicidades amo la naturaleza y gracias Qué hermoso video
I have watched this show several times and I am still fascinated!
i live in mexico and i,ll stay here forever
What part? I have a house in Jojutla Morelos
@@tlahuicolexiii2844 ohh i live in guadalajara mexico,
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL
Fantastic location and a fantastic house! I'm so jealous.
The most innovative and respect for mother Earth that I have ever seen. Water is everything, and without it we have nothing. Bravo❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️
thanks for all the videos, I've been watching them all for years now
I wish I had money to build a place like this in the country side with reusable water and solar panels. Great video. Love it!
One can always make this home in a much smaller scale according to our pocket $$. It's actually inexpensive to build homes in MX!
This might be my favorite house you have recorded and I have seen A LOT of them!!!! :) Always Great Videos
If I lived there the silence would be broken by beautiful opera arias played through a high-end audio system
Великолепно! Действительно, дом мечты. Дизайн, экологичность, экономичность и близость к природе - выше всяких похвал. Браво архитектору, браво хозяевам дома! Bravo!
Nature literally in front of the door.
Great house area and design, love the big windows.
interesantisimo todo . lo que más me; impacto fueron el echo de mantener el agua de la pileta y la fumigación sin químicos me gustaría saber cómo y con qué lo elaboran , el cloro y químicos en las piletas para los que padecen alguna patología a nivel piel .sería muy beneficioso y lo de poder fumigar tus háboles frutales , los patios de una casa sin estropear el suelo para poder sembrar nuestras verduras y harboles de fruta saludos desde Córdoba Argentina.
albert serbes árboles sin h
Mom
Me gustaría hacer una casa así
Thank you. I admired the ways and means of harvesting the water. Very thoughtful and considerate. Beautiful too.
Desde pequeño soñe con una casa ecológica. No hay nada más inspirador que ver que podamos vivir con la naturaleza y no de la naturaleza. El agua es la vida y debería ser sagrada.
Wow, that is amazing..
Mi tepoztlan!!! Un dia volvere!!! State of morelos land of zapata, a rebel for some a hero for us!!!
Thumbs up for your call sign 😊👍
Was pissed off for some reason.. then this video calms me right down., Beautiful place :) Kudos to the architect and the owners!
Thank you guys
Thank you for being NATURAL RESOURCES....
STUNNING..
👌👌👏💚
The beauty of nature can ippontize anyone
Quien es el brillante arquitecto mis felicitaciones un gran proyecto sustentable
Lidia Sanchez los dueños quienes serán?
@@jesamani75 disculpa no sabría decirte pero hay que investigar
Lidia Sanchez si sólo era una curiosidad que pensé.
Que Bella la casa y to-do lo que an hecho, me encanta,. Bendiciones.
Que hermosa coexistencia y tengo la fortuna de vivir en las faldas del Valle de Tepoztlan
WOW!
Im scared of avalanch
as long as those trees are well rooted your have little to worry about. @@aaronbueno1653
WOW!
Muy bonito lugar. Saludos cordiales desde Tijuana México
I love your channel. It's international, every time you have someone from a different country sharing with us something wonderful they built. Thank you
Se puede decir : la casa de la naturaleza! Lo que es muy especial porque el dueño quien dio mucho respecto a la madre de tierra y su mente es igualmente pura como la de la naturaleza! Muchas gracias por esto vídeo , una buena lesson para aprender por todos!
Amazing good job 👍👍👍👏👏👏🇲🇽
Very cool features. Not ‚comfy‘ enough, for my taste, but very smartly designed. And maybe, when you live in the jungle, you want a very clean, minimalist house as a contrast....
Yes, the contrast is amazing.
Jungle...
I would design lots of houseplants and easy-care Orchids to bring the outside in. A few Mexican works of art, both 2D and 3D and it could be very comfortable.
Looks uncomfortable as hell
But I love the idea
@@rhipotter6191 Why so?
Love this approach of living with nature and how important trees are and clean water for a good living!
As someone who had an experience working in a distilled water manufacturing company and water utility company, I am very impressed with their own filtration system.
So many of the places on this channel are just Airbnbs. I have a real issue with that. Airbnbs are causing the cost of housing to rise all over the world, and it is causing problems for low income residents. I am interested in these houses because I want to LIVE in one. I don't want to use it to profit from and disrupt the economy for my neighbors.
The best part is they cut the wall, not the branch 17:15
What a forward thinking individual (owner). Says a lot about them.
Muchas gracias por darnos el tour de esta casa maravillosa.
Dios debe estar bien satisfecho con este proyecto..no hay desperdicio🎆🎉🌟
I would leave my hurried life here in the states to retire there in a minute.
Agreed!!!
Both beautiful and scary where the deep hole and waterfall are
Do you have any mold issues in the casa?
In Mexico concrete (concrete blocks ) is used heavily, I'm not sure, but I think it rids you of that issue.
I absolutely adore this home, I would love to see more of this thoughtful design used everywhere!