Seed bank and private house (Project)

Ameca meca, Mexico, 2009.

A building designed to receive an NGO’s first seed bank, as well as the founder’s house.

It’s a sustainable project, the main character being the seed.

In order to maintain the exact cold temperatures of seed’s storing rooms, we decided to put special care on the building’s water presence.

Here, water, collected from rain, acts as an insulating material, as a security tool, and finally it is more than enough to be used for all the complex’s everyday’s needs.

All the bank’s tasks are organized around a central patio, which serves as a gathering place, as well as a drying spot for seeds. It has a south orientation.  

The house, on top of the bank, has a triangular shape to acquire the same aesthetical characteristics as the houses around, with a steep roof to get rid of all the winter’s snow.

The main materials are rammed earth for the ground floor and straw bales for the top.

TILICHE (Adriana David, Guillermo González)