Kaleidos House / Taller Estilo Arquitectura
176/5000″How to create a home, comfortable, functional and out of the ordinary, in a lot with dimensions of 4 x 69 meters” This was our challenge when developing the Kaleidos house.
Articles by Clara Ott
A Room for Archaeologists and Kids in Pachacámac / ETH Zurich + PUCP
Today, Pachacámac is one of the most visited archeological site in Peru. The sanctuary is managed by the Ministry of Culture, through the Museum of Pachacámac, an institution that both manages the site as a educational/cultural experience for visitors and as an on-going archaeological site. In 2015 a new complex of buildings by Llosa Cortegana Arquitectos was completed to house the museum and its on-going archaeological work.
Indira Gandhi Public School / Fresneda & Zamora Arquitectura
The project is clearly conditioned from the beginning by the topography and morphology of the plot and arises from the transformation of those limits in its virtue. The topography descends sharply in two directions and the morphology of the plot that closes outwards and opens inwards, leaving a minimal front for the development of the façade. In addition to the strict design standards, some uses are required, such as the concierge, common spaces or the Parent-Student Association. The building needs to be attached to the only point of contact with the main road with the maximum possible area. That explains the morphology in “U” form. The building is implanted next to the only current access of the plot, developing the entire educational program in a compact volume at the top, leaving the rest of the land for outdoor spaces.
Rombo IV / Miguel Angel Aragonés
The Rombos are four bodies assembled together with the formal accident that generated the urban fabric. It is a private space with three houses and a studio, in a central and tree-lined area of Mexico City called Bosques de las Lomas. With a continuous interaction with the tree, it is perhaps our most present guest and in any case the most enveloping, as well as the water that has a broad continuity.
Muelle House / SAA arquitectura + territorio
The dock house is a second home located meters from the coastal área of Pichicuy, in Chile’s V Region.
El Cortijo House / Felipe Assadi Arquitectos
The Project is located in a condominium development ok 5,000-sqare-meters lots. Neverthless, the typology reflects the configuration on a diferent scale, of a typical city block in central Guayaquil, with back-to-back constructions occupying the perimeter and generating patios on the interior. If we were to remove the divisions, we would have a single continuos building with a large inner patio.
Manuel House / Estudio Rocamora Diseño & Arquiectura
This house is originally a farmhouse of the nineteenth century Camp d’Elx. When we visited the place for the first time we found a traditional house in precarious conditions, with the roof down and in a state of advanced ruin.
Miravalle House / Colectivo 720
Context: The house is located in the foothills of the western mountain range at 1025 m.s.n.m, in the municipality of Jamundí approximately 10km south of Santiago de Cali. The place of implantation is on the foot of mountain of a tropical dry forest that adjoins on the western side of the house with the incidence of katabatic winds coming from the high of the hills.
Cariló House / Luciano Kruk
Cariló is an Argentine town in Pinamar, a district in Buenos Aires Province. It withholds a natural pine forest reserve, dunes and extensive beaches which led Cariló become one of the most important touristic centers and an ideal place to live, 360km away from the City of Buenos Aires.
Santo Domingo House / Apaloosa Estudio de Arquitectura y Diseño + Simetría Estudio de Arquitectura
“The container inside the container” both play an important role in the project, one can not be without the other and the spatial difference between them generates the required environment to provide amenity to the privacy of the users.