People/Products

The mountains outside Monterrey, Mexico, offer city views and forested vistas, but the terrain ruled out the one thing that the clients, a couple with six children, had their hearts set on: a house all on one level. There was no way to build a single-story structure without excavating deep into the hillside or doing some daredevil cantilevering. “But we wanted to work with this idea of making it flow the way a house with one floor does,” says Tatiana Bilbao, principal of her Mexico City–based architecture firm.