CASA MAGNOLIA

Type: Single family house

Date: 2022

Area: 750sqm

Location: Arrayanes, Ecuador

Status: Built 2022

Domino
Domino is a development of multiple houses and variable sizes of apartments on an elongated piece of land on the slopes of mountainous Cumbaya, Ecuador, a suburb of capital city Quito. Using only concrete, steel, and glass, the project takes advantage of the slope to create residences of different sizes (houses and apartments ranging from 1000 to 1600 square feet).

Communal spaces such as gym, sports grounds, working spaces, pools, kids rooms, etc., are located on the roofs of each block, creating a social connection on the higher levels of the project besides the ground floor garden. This allows for the residences to have a continuous shared social loop along the project.

Cumbaya, Ecuador

Designed in 2023-2024; construction to begin 2025
Architecture, interiors, landscape

Location: Guaranda - Ecuador

Year: 2012

Type: Single family retreat

Client: Private

Size: 135 sqm

ENG

Conceived for the high altitudes and extreme weather of the Andes Mountain Range, the walls of the retreat design the exterior spaces as much as they define the interior ones ensuring that all parts of the dwelling receive direct sunlight along the day.

Built in Ecuador in 2012, the first Clover House is set 3,600 meters high near the Chimborazo mountain on an irregular landscape surrounded by open views. 

This project incorporates ideas of repetition and variation on an architectural scale: The plan of the house accepts the traditional latin-american approach to divide the sleeping from the living and from the kitchen. These elements are organised and connected by a single continuous wall that takes on a variety of geometries enabling diversity of spaces in a site that could be considered like a tabula rasa. 

This results in a singular habitat where each room uniquely fragments and frames the surrounding landscape with openings on the walls that help appreciate the specificities of the environment, while creating outdoor program such as an entrance, a terrace, and a garden. Budget constrains and the need to respect the site lead to a minimum gesture for a maximum affect.

ESP

Prototipo habitacional para la Cordillera de Los Andes, la Casa Trebol fue concebida para grandes alturas y climas extremos. Las paredes del hogar generan tanto los espacios exteriores como los interiores, garantizando que todas las secciones de la vivienda reciban luz solar directa a lo largo del día.

La primera Casa Trébol se sitúa a 3,600 metros de altura, cerca de la montaña Chimborazo.

Este proyecto incorpora ideas de repetición y variación en una escala arquitectónica. La planta de la casa integra el enfoque de la tradición latinoamericana de dividir los espacios privados de la sala y de la cocina. Estos elementos están organizados y conectados por una sola piel contínua que se desenvuelve en una variedad de geometrías, permitiendo diversidad de espacios.

Esto resulta en un hábitat singular, en donde cada cuarto se fragmenta de manera única y enmarca el paisaje de los alrededores con aperturas en las paredes que ayudan a apreciar las especificidades del entorno.