Javier Senosiain Nautilus House

Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Entrance

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Garden View

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Garden View at Night

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Entrance

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Glass Window Detail

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Living Room

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Living Room

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Living Room

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Living Room with Indoor Garden

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Media Room

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Kitchen

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Main Bedroom

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Kids Bedroom

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Bathroom

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Javier Senosiain Nautilus House Drawing

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Javier Senosian: Architect of the Nautilus House

Javier Senosiain (born 1948) is a Mexican architect celebrated as a key exponent and explorer of so-called organic architecture. His work some have likened to that of Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Goff, Paolo Soleri, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Buckminster Fuller, Antoni Gaudi and Rudolf Steiner. He is currently a professor of architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. One of his most interesting modern architectural accomplishments is the Nautilus House which he built for a couple with two children. The Organic Nautilus House was built in 2006. The inside decor is all about smooth rounded surfaces, rich colors, and greenery all over the place. Magalli Mayorga lives in a well-heeled neighbourhood of Naucalpan, filled with large, conventional houses that evoke many an affluent US suburb. Except the home where she lives — with her husband, Fernando, 11-year-old Alan and six-year-old Joshua — doesn’t exactly fit the mould. It is an extraordinary giant space age snail. To enter Casa Nautilus (a nautilus is a kind of sea snail with a smooth, coiled and chambered shell) you go through a door in a large, stained-glass wall — the equivalent of the hole from where the creature’s head and body would emerge. The house taps into the natural climatic drama of Mexico City: during the rainy season, downpours crash into the Perspex skylights and are channelled around the roof and down the spiral to a fountain in the garden. Mayorga's children milk the house’s imaginative potential for all its worth. “All their friends love coming here to play.” Aside from Casa Nautilus and the flower house, Senosiain’s zany, organic constructions include houses that replicate a whale, a mythical plumed serpent and a shark. All are in the same area in Mexico City, and he keeps a close eye on his creations, living in the shark and renting out the rest. He is even wont to turn up with students in tow or an offering of azaleas, which he believes work well in the living room garden. The Nautilus House was built with a 2″ ferrocement construction, a technique involving a frame of steel-reinforced chicken wire with a special two-inch-thick composite of concrete spread over it, resulting in a structure that is earthquake-proof and maintenance-free.

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