Framing Life through a Courtyard: Kehai House, Morelia | HW Studio

HW Studio’s Kehai House in Morelia organises space around a Zen-inspired courtyard that structures movement, light, and hierarchy. Kehai House, the architect’s own residence, adopts a courtyard typology to organise an inward-looking domestic environment. From the outside, the house reads as a compact, closed volume within the urban fabric. This restrained exterior gives way to an internal courtyard, where an open-to-sky void replaces conventional circulation, structuring relationships between spaces while mediating light and air. This approach aligns with principles associated with Zen philosophy, translating abstraction into a precise architectural order.At the centre of the house, the courtyard is defined by […]