Aspire Metro featured Casa Paros — our Todos Santos residence — in a piece by Kelly Walters published on 16 July 2025. Walters framed the house around a phrase we have thought about ever since: “a narrative where sensory experience precedes function.”
The clients have roots in both the Mediterranean and Baja California, and wanted a house that belonged to both without pretending to be either. The reference point was Paros — the white, quiet architecture of the Greek islands — read through a Mexican lens rather than transplanted onto a Mexican site.
That distinction did most of the work. A literal Greek house in Baja would read as a stage set. What the two places genuinely share is a climate logic: thick walls, deep shade, small controlled openings, and outdoor rooms used more than indoor ones. We designed to the overlap, and let each place supply what it is better at — Aegean restraint in the massing and the palette, Mexican craft in everything you touch.
An olive tree stands at the entrance. It is the only explicit Mediterranean gesture in the house, and it does the job that a dozen decorative references would have failed to do.
The architecture was already well advanced when the studio arrived, and it had good bones: high ceilings, black iron windows, lime-washed walls, a palapa-covered terrace. Our work was the interior — and the interior is what changed how the house is experienced.
We designed for movement before we designed for looks. Rooms open into one another with soft transitions rather than hard thresholds, so circulation feels intuitive and the boundary between inside and outside stays deliberately blurred. Patios filter light like natural screens; bedrooms open onto planting; polished concrete runs throughout as the surface that ties the rooms together. Shadow does as much work here as any material.
The programme follows the same principle of use over display: two bedrooms in the main house, a separate guest casita, a carpentry workshop in the garage because the owners work with their hands, a swim pool planted with endemic species, and a rooftop fire pit facing the Pacific.
The result reads as lived in rather than styled. That was the intention throughout — Walters picked up on it, and it remains the clearest statement of what the studio is trying to do.
The full project, with photography, is on our Paros House portfolio page. Design Hunter México later covered the same house from a different angle — the craft and the local materials behind it — in its Casas feature.
For the studio’s approach to houses on this coast generally, see luxury residential design, our Todos Santos studio page, and our journal piece on Baja beach house design.
Feature: Aspire Metro, 16 July 2025. Words: Kelly Walters. Images courtesy of Aspire Magazine.