Architect Tatiana Bilbao will be the first to tell you her projects are not exactly addressing urban problems of her native Mexico City. With a growing population population of nearly 20 million, poor urban planning, vast housing and commercial buildings pose significant challenges to put it lightly. Not that Los Angeles were I live is a much better example of what modern city could be, but Mexico City is on the whole different level of urban development  issues. In fact I was quite shocked with pure absurd of the city’s urban infrastructure when I was there 3 years ago, but maybe I will talk about in my next post, but for Tatiana Bilbao challenges are in a high end large scale projects that celebrate modernity and style. And this is what we love. Although a Universe Beach house is not the latest creation done by architect I still love it as strongly as when I saw if first time.

One of her earliest projects, a beach house for the artist Gabriel Orozco's family, still makes her laugh. The house, which has a round pool on the roof, was organized around the concept of camping. Like a tent, you must exit each room to the exterior in order to get to another room, such as the toilet or kitchen. "For Gabriel, it was not architecture; it's more of a living sculpture," Bilbao says, noting that she collaborated with Orozco on realizing the artist's initial design. "Architecture has to be functional. After it was built, and I understood how it worked like a tent, I thought it was really clever."