When I'm traveling I love to wander around a city on foot and check out groovy architecture, so when I finally make it to Mexico City I'm going to do my darnedest to see architect Javier Senosiain's fantastical creations even if they're squirreled away in a private neighborhood. Focusing on a kind of imaginative bioarchitecture that looks like the Mexican love child of Gaudí and Hundertwasser, Senosiain has created buildings in the shape of sea creatures (he lives in his own shark) and the god Quetzalcoatl. Magalli Mayorga lives with her family in Senosiain's "Nautilus":
"The idea is that, just as a snail lives inside its shell, so our world is inside our house," Mayorga says of the ferroconcrete structure sprayed with polyurethane plastic foam, built for her family by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain. An admirer of Antoni Gaudí and Frank Lloyd Wright, he specialises in undulating, organic structures: "The concept of an organic habitat," he has written, "is the creation of spaces adapted to man that are also similar to a mother's bosom or an animal's lair."
The
pictures of the Nautilus interior show an incredibly seductive space, all undulating surfaces and colored glass, with a garden in the living room and even space for a furry friend or two. Total
house porn.