zozaya designs home with pool suspended over mexico's coast

casa Piscina del Cielo: A House Between Sky and Sea

Casa Piscina del Cielo, designed by Zozaya Arquitectos, rises from the coastal slopes of Mexico’s Pacific coast as both residence and landscape intervention. The project is set on a site of unusual topography, where natural contours and ancient boulders guided the architectural response. The architects tell designboom: ‘From the outset, the client asked for something extraordinary, a home that would defy convention, a structure that felt singular and paradigm-breaking.’

The home’s entrance is framed by strong geometries and stone surfaces, leading visitors through two monumental doors and into a central courtyard with its dramatic swimming pool. Here, massive rocks were uncovered during excavation and preserved in-place to becoming sculptural monoliths around which the home’s program centers.

Casa Piscina del Cielo is designed by Zozaya Arquitectos | images © Alex Krotkov (unless otherwise stated)

zozaya arquitectos sculpts a pool toward the horizon

From this central stone courtyard, Zozaya Arquitectos’ Casa Piscina del Cielo unfolds. The architects shelter the main living space beneath a soaring palapa, open on all sides to sea breezes and natural light. Under this thatched canopy, breezy living, dining, and kitchen areas extend into one another, accumulating to create a vast communal space that feels at once wide-open and sheltered.

With service areas organized subtly to one side. This allows the main living spaces to flow outward onto a covered terrace where a pergola, grill, and bar gaze outward to the horizon.

Casa Piscina del Cielo’s most impressive element is perhaps its swimming pool, which projects 27 meters (90 feet) over the cliffside. Suspended above the cliffy coastline and waves beyond, the pool’s floor is punctuated by a square glass window, framing a watery view down to surf and creating the sensation of floating between sea and sky. This single gesture defines the project’s name and character.

the home is shaped by natural topography and preserved boulders of Mexico’s Pacific coast

interior design draws from the landscape

Alongside the courtyard, a cinema and office space neighbor a guest suite that opens onto a private terrace. Further down, the most secluded level contains the main bedroom and a gym, both facing a quiet terrace that frames distant ocean views. From this sheltered perch, the floating silhouette of the pool above becomes part of the coastal panorama.

The landscape design, executed by Taller Entorno, is integral to the architectural intent. Plantings and pathways are woven into the terrain so that the house appears to emerge from the hillside rather than dominate it. This way, the architects create a continuity between natural slope, the jagged stone formations, and the built space.

Zozaya Arquitectos curates a material palette informed by regional authenticity. Woven palm defines the palapa and interior ceilings, parota wood lends warmth, and chukum plaster recalls the surrounding earth. Exposed concrete, steel pergolas, and wood decks reinforce a dialogue between local tradition and a style that is almost brutalist. The interiors, led by DRDS, extend this approach with restrained detailing and furnishings that echo the textures of the site.