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C-Shaped Concrete Block Home Wraps Around Swimming Pool Courtyard

La Chaya by Eureka Studio is located in Merida, Yucatan, designed by Eureka Studio, it is a concrete block design, featuring a stacked pattern rather then the traditional subway or brick layout and continuing along the “un” traditional design, the home’s front garden, sandwiched between the main entrance and the garage, is a sand box with cacti growing from it.
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The garage doors are also unconventional, featuring a large bi-folding design.

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A small, unassuming door to the right of the cacti garden opens to a pathway that leads down the side of the house to another cacti garden and the main entry door.
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The main door is a large pivoting design made out of solid wood located in a niche next to a pair of sliders that opens the kitchen to the cacti garden.
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The kitchen is separate from the social zone and is filled with floor to ceiling storage and top of the line appliances.
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While the kitchen is void of any fussy details, the soft green cabinetry and dark wood fills the room with vibrancy and life.
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The entry door pivots open to the double volume dining room, which is positioned right next to the contained kitchen and overlooks a sand garden underneath the stairwell.
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The dining room pops with color within its patchwork chairs and row of animal hooks on the wall.
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The dining table continues the concrete brick aesthetic within its base.
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A outdoor living space is next to the dining room through a pair of sliding glass doors.
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This outdoor zone is right next to the pool.
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While the front gardens are all about sand and cacti, this courtyard space has a lush patch of grass growing next to the outdoor seating.
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The courtyard is the master suite and a home office on the main floor and three bedrooms and two baths upstairs.
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The master bedroom overlooks the pool while the home office overlooks the palm tree and grassy area.
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With the home wrapping the pool on three sides and a fence on the other, the pool is a completely private oasis in the middle of a city.
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On the other side of the fence is a large, full grown tree that continues the privacy high up into the air while at the same time offering a beautiful view of its leaves and branches.
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The back wall of the home is where a hallway is located, connecting the dining room to the master suite without having to go outside, there is also a hallway upstairs connecting the top of the stairs to the three bedrooms above the master suite. Above the kitchen the stairwell leads to a private sitting room and to an upstairs terrace overlooking the front garden.
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The upstairs terrace is wrapped with planters for growing vegetables.
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Architects – Eureka Studio.
Photography by David Cervera
If you like the way Eureka Studio created a private courtyard for La Chaya’s swimming pool, you will really like how this 3-storey Modern Mediterranean Villa encloses its glass sided swimming pool within a large courtyard surrounded by privacy walls.

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