MuReRe Houses - Adamo-Faiden

<span style="font-family:times new roman;">Argentinian architects <a href="http://www.adamo-faiden.com.ar/" target="_blank">Adamo-Faiden</a> shared with ous a very interesting project. </span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">MuReRe houses are social housing project for Buenos Aires that is installed on top of already existing homes.<br />By doing so, they care about the sustainability of both buildings.<br />You can see more images (some of them are in Spanish) and the architect’s description after the break.<br /></span><br /><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p4rBWv-wXuKJKLB_vLYtbybDz79xfpTRueLzggFqFyk7aQzpYYsDxVsOdZS4slJ7nuzDCrt6tOe_BY7wc6I-UKw/general-image.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Adamo-Faiden, arquitectura, vivienda-colectiva, diseño, sustentable" border="0" src="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p4rBWv-wXuKJKLB_vLYtbybDz79xfpTRueLzggFqFyk7aQzpYYsDxVsOdZS4slJ7nuzDCrt6tOe_BY7wc6I-UKw/general-image.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">MuReRe houses (Mutualistic-Residential-Regenerative).</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><div align="left"><br /><strong>MuReRe is Mutualistic.</strong></div><strong><div align="left"><br /></strong>In Argentina, social housing and its surrounding environment are viewed as elements in conflict. In the following we will identify three prototypical relationships.</div><div align="left"><br /><strong>1. Social housing as parasite:</strong> </div><div align="left">It draws resources from its environment without offering anything in return. Most often it is the local infrastructure which becomes strained as a response.</div><div align="left"><strong>2. Social housing depreciates the surroundings:</strong> </div><div align="left">It degrades the state of its environment until destroying the original attributes of what once was.</div><div align="left"><strong>3. Social housing as leper:</strong> </div><div align="left">It is constructed without context. By beginning without infrastructure its survival is already put into crisis.</span></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1prNEQS6HJyqKCqSo4NHQl7oPV8jrU_Fp2axgQO59RBnOcMSM_mf3zHkVyXUKItNgbPWuNkCZ8Tnl0H53im8dFZg/interior-image.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Adamo-Faiden, arquitectura, vivienda-colectiva, diseño, sustentable" border="0" src="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1prNEQS6HJyqKCqSo4NHQl7oPV8jrU_Fp2axgQO59RBnOcMSM_mf3zHkVyXUKItNgbPWuNkCZ8Tnl0H53im8dFZg/interior-image.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">As a reaction to these conditions, the MuReRe houses propose a new covenant between social housing and its surrounding environment. As in biological mutualism, both species look to the other to improve their ability to interact with one another. Thus, the MuReRe house rejects an empty lot or virgin ground, and instead gains the support an existing building can provide.</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />This plan achieves the double objective, containing the sprawl of Buenos Aires and evolving the vernacular of the city. The project is proposed for the “conurbano bonaerense” or the periphery of Buenos Aires, this zone spans a large area, and is composed of contiguous one and two story buildings. Resulting in a dense footprint without a dense occupancy rate. This zone has difficulty with providing adequate infrastructure and fails to draw the critical mass necessary to demand it.</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pK6xLl1p9FnFf4P1iME9_TaoADq6ceZYa54tvC8mPTZa4qIx7e-AQJQmPz9IOcrx6w7qK6J04lVuJmSO5ITvuMA/diagrama-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Adamo-Faiden, arquitectura, vivienda-colectiva, diseño, sustentable" border="0" src="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pK6xLl1p9FnFf4P1iME9_TaoADq6ceZYa54tvC8mPTZa4qIx7e-AQJQmPz9IOcrx6w7qK6J04lVuJmSO5ITvuMA/diagrama-1.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> </div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The MuReRe house find their site in this zone, perched on top of the existing fabric, ready to receive them as a foundation for their construction. By dispersing throughout the existing urban fabric, social housing can avoid gentrification and finds a space to exist within an area that is thought to be built up entirely. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">By doubling the density of the lot where they are inserted, the sustainability of both buildings (new and existing) increases and a programmatic diversity is introduced to the neighbourhood. The MuReRe houses are as much a model of social housing as a strategy to increase the value of it’s environment.</span> </div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pyPs90460WUN2YmKZRJIxzGWD_sPBSfko-reK7zIWBR7NoOTHEIF0U0yFYjaguQ9qljIpJI7hiRU_I5vRA4z8Lg/model-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Adamo-Faiden, arquitectura, vivienda-colectiva, diseño, sustentable" border="0" src="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pyPs90460WUN2YmKZRJIxzGWD_sPBSfko-reK7zIWBR7NoOTHEIF0U0yFYjaguQ9qljIpJI7hiRU_I5vRA4z8Lg/model-1.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>MuReRe is Residential.</strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong></strong><br />The MuReRe houses are homes and infrastructure at the same time. Once constructed, the new house takes on the role of infrastructure not only for itself but for the building below as well. The double peaked roof functions as rain water catchment and grey water storage to be uses for watering a garden, washing cars, or flushing a toilet. The angle of the roof can be positioned to best capture the sun, and solar collectors provide hot water for domestic use or hydronic heating. Finally the addition structure on the roof acts to insulate the building below.</span></div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><a href="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pUMV8h35Vc93J_U2LAU5b7vyScKadvu_fdnIxcf5DVEF85u61UGlwjG6kSwNb4dTyaIQX9L88-3M-C48ZdoAgTA/model-2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Adamo-Faiden, arquitectura, vivienda-colectiva, diseño, sustentable" border="0" src="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pUMV8h35Vc93J_U2LAU5b7vyScKadvu_fdnIxcf5DVEF85u61UGlwjG6kSwNb4dTyaIQX9L88-3M-C48ZdoAgTA/model-2.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Due to the nature of their site, on top of existing structures, MuReRe houses require a method of construction which is light and quick to build. A light construction method insures that the additional structure does not strain the existing foundation. Speed is important because the construction will greatly impact the residence below. It is also necessary to provide a high degree of flexibility in the plan to adapt to the conditions each support roof requires when acting as site. The MuReRe houses replace, ¨A city lush with greenery¨ to ¨A city concerned with green¨.</span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pjiXInTfGy7IkDbvKPMrPfopKB47a2l6bCpyhLCpTSROqbFduURoY_3fM58oOTtJ0bvvWKtEE8yDarROxeJkhrw/diagrama-2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Adamo-Faiden, arquitectura, vivienda-colectiva, diseño, sustentable" border="0" src="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pjiXInTfGy7IkDbvKPMrPfopKB47a2l6bCpyhLCpTSROqbFduURoY_3fM58oOTtJ0bvvWKtEE8yDarROxeJkhrw/diagrama-2.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>MuReRe is Regenerative.</strong></span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><br /></strong>The MuReRe house dismisses the idea that the urban fabric we have now can be regarded as finished, or good enough. Instead it thrives on the densification of an abundant but outdated urban plan. Encouraged by the proximity to the urban nucleo and the cities capacity to transform, we find a truely open substrate ready to receive this plan. </span></div></span><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pe5wOPskWqzvVc4uDHNNIGzrk0-8zX5YpIdy8hVF96V4wFekH1Nyuv8S2emULbb30C-NKJy9EYN2_I27Bkn61DQ/diagrama-3.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Adamo-Faiden, arquitectura, vivienda-colectiva, diseño, sustentable" border="0" src="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pe5wOPskWqzvVc4uDHNNIGzrk0-8zX5YpIdy8hVF96V4wFekH1Nyuv8S2emULbb30C-NKJy9EYN2_I27Bkn61DQ/diagrama-3.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The MuReRe houses are not an alternative urban model, but rather an accelerator in the process of densification. Even in doubling the use of the existing fabric, the density does not reach a level necessary for a viable city. MuReRe houses propose an opportunistic and radically mixed urbanism, much more locally tactical than strategic. It is possible to generate change in short time periods. It is then the objective not to create the entire urban model, but to catalyze an anticipated, deep and radical transformation of the city. The MuReRe houses are a mechanism to reactivate the latent potential of the Buenos Aires periphery.</span></div><div align="center"><br /><br /><a href="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pe5wOPskWqzvVc4uDHNNIGzrk0-8zX5YpIdy8hVF96V4wFekH1Nyuv8S2emULbb30C-NKJy9EYN2_I27Bkn61DQ/diagrama-3.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Adamo-Faiden, arquitectura, vivienda-colectiva, diseño, sustentable" border="0" src="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pe5wOPskWqzvVc4uDHNNIGzrk0-8zX5YpIdy8hVF96V4wFekH1Nyuv8S2emULbb30C-NKJy9EYN2_I27Bkn61DQ/diagrama-3.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p5nraZZHk9Iyb9GtN0boCa9Kho8rczRkI5HCxDlS9ZYpV-2uVgGcMF3n2XVRZHNyXaiT_wxziJ2hdmLTSt5K84g/01-s.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Adamo-Faiden, arquitectura, vivienda-colectiva, diseño, sustentable" border="0" src="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p5nraZZHk9Iyb9GtN0boCa9Kho8rczRkI5HCxDlS9ZYpV-2uVgGcMF3n2XVRZHNyXaiT_wxziJ2hdmLTSt5K84g/01-s.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p5erdXPLXrFTYZG2bw8b-cGlby7XybMl5FKx9M63SAPZO1-gPoBCDYAtCaZF0omCTPGqHWW8dB5_TiYso6ajNrQ/02-s.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Adamo-Faiden, arquitectura, vivienda-colectiva, diseño, sustentable" border="0" src="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p5erdXPLXrFTYZG2bw8b-cGlby7XybMl5FKx9M63SAPZO1-gPoBCDYAtCaZF0omCTPGqHWW8dB5_TiYso6ajNrQ/02-s.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pSVQz1gVyxJyvxQUXGvuDKBMGjJ0nc4rjw5r5QMYAnNozFAkD8ztJynGSvIXU4ygk8_NZlSZHTNu34JNDxEcEww/03-s.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Adamo-Faiden, arquitectura, vivienda-colectiva, diseño, sustentable" border="0" src="http://mpnpfa.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pSVQz1gVyxJyvxQUXGvuDKBMGjJ0nc4rjw5r5QMYAnNozFAkD8ztJynGSvIXU4ygk8_NZlSZHTNu34JNDxEcEww/03-s.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a> </div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Adamo Faiden Arquitectos: </span><a href="http://tecnohaus.blogspot.com/2008/07/casa-chal-adamo-faiden-arquitectos.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Chalú House - Adamo-Faiden Arquitectos </span></a></div><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><br />VIA : <a href="http://tecnohaus.blogspot.com/2009/07/casas-murere-mutualismo-residencial.html" target="_blank">TECNOHAUS</a>

MuReRe Houses - Adamo-Faiden

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House in Jigozen - Suppose Design Office

<span style="font-family:times new roman;">Built by the sea, this is a house designed for a family of three; a mother, a father and one child.</span><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pYD3iQh090eaZhvm7byfG7e4greiPgwiMEbBrlNmIym2f8L60MzJr3TcpIIFkDwoGZmRmbQW53x53ZIP0Q-x-aw/jigozentop1.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pYD3iQh090eaZhvm7byfG7e4greiPgwiMEbBrlNmIym2f8L60MzJr3TcpIIFkDwoGZmRmbQW53x53ZIP0Q-x-aw/jigozentop1.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pgFr8kMTnp62k3uB_t8yjNO60N-a2iYO9EYiBOSbtvfwi1IjOKpjkSEfw8rDwRjLn-4B8vAnHBbtvspQs1z1JwQ/jigozen18.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pgFr8kMTnp62k3uB_t8yjNO60N-a2iYO9EYiBOSbtvfwi1IjOKpjkSEfw8rDwRjLn-4B8vAnHBbtvspQs1z1JwQ/jigozen18.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Along with the exhilarating feeling of being by the sea comes the longstanding idea that this spot i s prone to damage from natural disasters, especially during Typhoon season.</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span></div><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pioXei_Rn0SuUKXIo4S0iF106fB-5oH9CVcpd8r93cGtl-gApwMOH0q70fuYGm-r_5HOfR9LH0MdGaJ4FRTcbjQ/jigozen17.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pioXei_Rn0SuUKXIo4S0iF106fB-5oH9CVcpd8r93cGtl-gApwMOH0q70fuYGm-r_5HOfR9LH0MdGaJ4FRTcbjQ/jigozen17.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pyRFPx-TGdGKfIaM34UiD3jj0JgkgrMpM1uVzgzoZcfq1SH-CXX4HpPzOY9o6f4lOy8LojLQVp-R6KYbM8-jWYg/jigozen2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pyRFPx-TGdGKfIaM34UiD3jj0JgkgrMpM1uVzgzoZcfq1SH-CXX4HpPzOY9o6f4lOy8LojLQVp-R6KYbM8-jWYg/jigozen2.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pM1EejnKo38xCG8-xVl6rV-hrxwKAV-qPsLFSbn6VYBnxw_6fwt8N5FiixGB64d1fXawpK-G_tn1JE2tYsTiEyg/jigozen3.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pM1EejnKo38xCG8-xVl6rV-hrxwKAV-qPsLFSbn6VYBnxw_6fwt8N5FiixGB64d1fXawpK-G_tn1JE2tYsTiEyg/jigozen3.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pOu2h9fvPRIi9UnrTqbhD7bNhXa0mdjCbRvCriB0_Qg3E9Dy2bfppU-rNPeblGt4h5yGGB6qZ24T71v9F3PnoYg/jigozen4.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pOu2h9fvPRIi9UnrTqbhD7bNhXa0mdjCbRvCriB0_Qg3E9Dy2bfppU-rNPeblGt4h5yGGB6qZ24T71v9F3PnoYg/jigozen4.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">If we look at the past , there are many examples of damage caused by nature, such as windstorms or flooding. Therefore, it becomes necessary to build a house where you can feel relaxed while also taking into consideration these natural disasters from the very start of planning.</span> </div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pOu2h9fvPRIhkKYOIEjO9_n4pHr3frKM-a-TyXXdgh5X2EdHl5XQm2x5dVkujLw88eCpycrNu0juH9Lc9USAPCg/jigozen5.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pOu2h9fvPRIhkKYOIEjO9_n4pHr3frKM-a-TyXXdgh5X2EdHl5XQm2x5dVkujLw88eCpycrNu0juH9Lc9USAPCg/jigozen5.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p5Na9sKHPXBDHa5S2spweKi7CF7xsqzDWau0SWvK0IisicI_lKzYXrXRoRNZRT_kmfmWgG0bDzRoGJNpyqklNvQ/jigozen6.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p5Na9sKHPXBDHa5S2spweKi7CF7xsqzDWau0SWvK0IisicI_lKzYXrXRoRNZRT_kmfmWgG0bDzRoGJNpyqklNvQ/jigozen6.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p4PqD3hcB4jQF9GyYnlEtjCHhuN1DHfiML5Rt0hLR2-gBDgbKg3gNHbmdwoLFXUQxQntCF6oYrbMWFQ9mnpDdMg/jigozen7.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p4PqD3hcB4jQF9GyYnlEtjCHhuN1DHfiML5Rt0hLR2-gBDgbKg3gNHbmdwoLFXUQxQntCF6oYrbMWFQ9mnpDdMg/jigozen7.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p4PqD3hcB4jSFIdjGF5P10KrDosOlx8pOJ_ryFDnXibrKC2HoUMh7JFc71zLFSKxMjX0bNdPOEkuFzYtoUPuYqg/jigozen8.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p4PqD3hcB4jSFIdjGF5P10KrDosOlx8pOJ_ryFDnXibrKC2HoUMh7JFc71zLFSKxMjX0bNdPOEkuFzYtoUPuYqg/jigozen8.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong> “The Line between Interior and Exterior”</strong></span></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In this building, the interior and exterior flow together with the existence of what you could call a half-outdoor space.<br />This space creates a gradation from inside to outside. With a space whi ch is at the same time like a terrace, a veranda, an inside room, and the outdoors, items which normally would be found inside, such as books and paintings, a study or a bath, can actively participate in this middle-ground between interior and exterior. This space fulfills the role of connecting the outside to the inside. In addition, it serves as a buffer to the various natural-phenomena found in the outdoors. It solves the seemingly contrary problems of “protection” and “openness” at the same time</span>.</div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pJnVIQE5JNXdGtsUtixgT7tgeEuA-2xLPJBv8WMmz3xhM4HRKxKU8lpr0v6eug0whwOlrZdLZyMQZOON3BUPUeQ/jigozen12.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pJnVIQE5JNXdGtsUtixgT7tgeEuA-2xLPJBv8WMmz3xhM4HRKxKU8lpr0v6eug0whwOlrZdLZyMQZOON3BUPUeQ/jigozen12.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pJnVIQE5JNXfnCx5rz7ApVO2S41P8hijKIWGASYD2nGoPOq3t7VxJFHNw3MK7MHZDHNufOUKusoqUmSiiOuqtiw/jigozen13.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pJnVIQE5JNXfnCx5rz7ApVO2S41P8hijKIWGASYD2nGoPOq3t7VxJFHNw3MK7MHZDHNufOUKusoqUmSiiOuqtiw/jigozen13.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The construction method I have come up with leaves freedom for many choices while still using wood as the construction material. Generally, wooden construction uses beams and posts, along with counterbraces in order to make a building resistant to earthquakes.</span></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p23xnIT_FUJBEMaGG5t-nOoTF3TQlOkixoV6vLcrs9_qTKV_joArKWgLON2XY1b_E9EU-I4MnIPtWDLXNOcrW1A/jigozen14.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p23xnIT_FUJBEMaGG5t-nOoTF3TQlOkixoV6vLcrs9_qTKV_joArKWgLON2XY1b_E9EU-I4MnIPtWDLXNOcrW1A/jigozen14.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p8-MSjStkS2lF04PeXRuMT4R1fsVrRm1Na3b1LR0fH3uxzdXot29JNsNEdD3urXYkpkv87zVM6XzY_QBuARnq0A/jigozen15.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1p8-MSjStkS2lF04PeXRuMT4R1fsVrRm1Na3b1LR0fH3uxzdXot29JNsNEdD3urXYkpkv87zVM6XzY_QBuARnq0A/jigozen15.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">By placing the posts diagonally, we can achieve a simple framework which, while being made of wood, does not stifle openness. By searching for various spaces, between interior and exterior, between posts and counterbraces, I believe we can arrive at one answer which leads us to the connection of openness and nature found in this very attractive site by the sea.</span></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1paRW8SOdPGEDzECczo66KFRn9yAQj_UFqfFf_iQ82CnmxUJwQJ3hnexVwY-wK7zNwIxlCvoWqTBfPdJndORFXaQ/jigozen19.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1paRW8SOdPGEDzECczo66KFRn9yAQj_UFqfFf_iQ82CnmxUJwQJ3hnexVwY-wK7zNwIxlCvoWqTBfPdJndORFXaQ/jigozen19.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pmfoARE-I8_hUYf2DPnUZ9WbGs6xcblqsqHsSbYcHIw_UaNmWkyjBvNucuRr-3uIOPqq3McPceAY6TuKFctGAfg/jigozen20.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pmfoARE-I8_hUYf2DPnUZ9WbGs6xcblqsqHsSbYcHIw_UaNmWkyjBvNucuRr-3uIOPqq3McPceAY6TuKFctGAfg/jigozen20.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Architects: </span><a href="http://www.suppose.jp/english/index.html"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Suppose Design Office</span></a></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Location: Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Program: Personal house </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Structure: Wooden structure, 2 stories </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Site area: 174.75 sqm </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Building area: 44.41m </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Total floor area: 111.78 sqm</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Design year: 2006-2008</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Construction year: 2008-2009</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from </span><a href="http://www.nacasa.co.jp/e/index.html"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Nacasa&Partners Inc.</span></a></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pMrHcHIN9vhcHUJ2sU-mZUGx6dhScWgvybH2ro2Gq1K81SvtkD1BVxb0ukpH57VVQGKijxSEZ9z738L1-hN8gHQ/jigozen22.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pMrHcHIN9vhcHUJ2sU-mZUGx6dhScWgvybH2ro2Gq1K81SvtkD1BVxb0ukpH57VVQGKijxSEZ9z738L1-hN8gHQ/jigozen22.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pkMMIGKKJ3ySScfJ2Mnew6OtDZgd-5rQx7hcp2G3PqF4dQTkvKwdbaWvZXeN7PuGC4Kf0ppsikgF8poCsbcbUIw/jigozen23.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Architecture, Design, House, Interiors" border="0" src="http://dgoyza.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pkMMIGKKJ3ySScfJ2Mnew6OtDZgd-5rQx7hcp2G3PqF4dQTkvKwdbaWvZXeN7PuGC4Kf0ppsikgF8poCsbcbUIw/jigozen23.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div>

House in Jigozen - Suppose Design Office

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Vallecas 51 - SOMOS Arquitectos

<strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">1. URBAN SETTING AND PROJECT</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The proposed building rises eight floors above the ground along one of the limits of the block imposed by the urban planning. The great scale of the building acts like a visual screen for the green area that stands aside, physically protecting it. The volume, specifically fixed according to the rigid city-planning rules that prevail within the scope of the PAU de Vallecas, as well as the optimization of the space to obtain the estimated amount of apartments, drove us to respect the enveloped volume determined in the planning, using another series of tools to give a new urban approach to the intervention. On the ground floor, the apartments are oriented towards the later green area, whereas towards the official facade and the hustle and bustle common of a commercial street, the commercial premises and the three accesses (garage and pedestrian) are placed. </span><br /><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pjma5v6-BAInmALagVvRymWmWkNWh-KUT4uao8w3LoBGMeU-x3Q_3fxQXqt3NCPu-Bdwn_yJe-ruPMwb_nflNsNbrYUmNsvYB/viviendas-vallecas-01.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pjma5v6-BAInmALagVvRymWmWkNWh-KUT4uao8w3LoBGMeU-x3Q_3fxQXqt3NCPu-Bdwn_yJe-ruPMwb_nflNsNbrYUmNsvYB/viviendas-vallecas-01.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The building raises a scale reduction, a friendly relation with the surroundings spliting the facade in small units that combined with each other might be able to transmit a changing sensation, dynamic, chameleonlike. The facade crystallizes through open celled polycarbonate panels fixed on an aluminum substructure, creating a sustainable and recyclable skin. These panels achieve, through gradation of tones and brightness, combined with a substrate of neutral color determined by the outer shell of the facade, the right combination of both materials in order to make the entire façade to vibrate, entering in resonance with that light so characteristic on the city of Madrid.</span></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1ptEqjsSRTdEiNZGJjcEBsqIF0vYQQ-9-yuRjL2lA_gUB1hpCUko25R90YvSrlSpPSLdA66OCLnwJnt1kqyKXSWTbN73qOVhSB/viviendas-vallecas-02.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1ptEqjsSRTdEiNZGJjcEBsqIF0vYQQ-9-yuRjL2lA_gUB1hpCUko25R90YvSrlSpPSLdA66OCLnwJnt1kqyKXSWTbN73qOVhSB/viviendas-vallecas-02.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1puYGPIGWtbKc-dsKzSKgQt3Pdj4QF1URV5CADl90KzhpSIVo2YLqyjkkRiiwijR8ByQ7kCzWOZu0DOTyb-Yok4-9FiiloW8mq/viviendas-vallecas-03.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1puYGPIGWtbKc-dsKzSKgQt3Pdj4QF1URV5CADl90KzhpSIVo2YLqyjkkRiiwijR8ByQ7kCzWOZu0DOTyb-Yok4-9FiiloW8mq/viviendas-vallecas-03.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">In the inside, a courtyard flanked with access galleries provides the apartments with light and crossed ventilation, two facts that in this way would let them become open to two opposed facades. The light galleries made out of steel wind through the inner void and optimize the ratio of vertical access cores on each floor. At the same time they grant renewed aesthetic qualities, as well as hygiene and salubrity to the common space of relation. A translucent polycarbonate ceiling is settled like linen cloths that illuminate the accesses to the apartments. The slim stairs are solved extending out from these galleries in an overhang which jumps in the air connecting each floor.</span></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pEVuf0bBC9cyh_oRjzdn5IoqpzDP5zBqMbH64GKOMzI66S7Oeku1fTcPUuss3M8Q_PR2GXsyiScAtN0-7qGvw2djkGSgFV3Qk/viviendas-vallecas-04.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pEVuf0bBC9cyh_oRjzdn5IoqpzDP5zBqMbH64GKOMzI66S7Oeku1fTcPUuss3M8Q_PR2GXsyiScAtN0-7qGvw2djkGSgFV3Qk/viviendas-vallecas-04.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pyY2ApOk7T_OHWni3m4uE1Gtb38Lh9P-GeVV2QMLwfW_MJbQ26KbYn72Sfr89HKsWK1R2kHqgKZvcG0C-U4C_d3p7s-_RfKkD/viviendas-vallecas-05.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pyY2ApOk7T_OHWni3m4uE1Gtb38Lh9P-GeVV2QMLwfW_MJbQ26KbYn72Sfr89HKsWK1R2kHqgKZvcG0C-U4C_d3p7s-_RfKkD/viviendas-vallecas-05.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The hall area is emphasized like a compressed access space, by means of generous terraces, finished with vitreous mosaic, prepared for the installation of the mailboxes and illuminated with a network of lights-skylight in the ceiling.</span><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></div><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pncSj3wy819OaSpteTs_nW5fMR3wo3Lpx_swiv5hkWCJy5OeC1pMicoDUSiRcnhSYDnzth56gHoH2mX1DwGtbE8M5_auqSubU/viviendas-vallecas-06.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pncSj3wy819OaSpteTs_nW5fMR3wo3Lpx_swiv5hkWCJy5OeC1pMicoDUSiRcnhSYDnzth56gHoH2mX1DwGtbE8M5_auqSubU/viviendas-vallecas-06.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pLl-ChGRch_NWFOknK0snJHe5WxfkrWhJBHkMhU3oVTbxxvbs9ZPoTTc1lk3qzB5EpI1b7Do1SbccnrSewG9jKVLeepMvKaVF/viviendas-vallecas-07.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pLl-ChGRch_NWFOknK0snJHe5WxfkrWhJBHkMhU3oVTbxxvbs9ZPoTTc1lk3qzB5EpI1b7Do1SbccnrSewG9jKVLeepMvKaVF/viviendas-vallecas-07.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong>2. PROGRAM</strong></span></div><div align="left"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">It is about one promotion of 123 houses of Social housing, 2 businesses and 4 underground floors for garage, to be solved in a quarter of a block. In order to save space, we propose just two vertical communication cores located at the ends of the inner courtyard. The apartments are grouped around this patio, being accessed through steel footbridges. The units prepared for handicapped people are placed on the ground floor looking out towards the green area, whereas in the main façade, access hall and garage find their place, as well as the commercial premises.</span></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pfKEPboeKtLvKCb2igidf5IidhjbyuLXOzjv5Q6pvA2jpU4NlqarYsOmXKsC_PGcMt2VClQ-C9358Zj3FFHskqg/viviendas-vallecas-08.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pfKEPboeKtLvKCb2igidf5IidhjbyuLXOzjv5Q6pvA2jpU4NlqarYsOmXKsC_PGcMt2VClQ-C9358Zj3FFHskqg/viviendas-vallecas-08.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pLxIbFYiq5VhZ5BRkOUh7o90KTDfymF1WlYfmH2OhVJOxSTeYAjnPLQxwhSp2Osj2vSf_GbxUel6eS8P7Wov5wg/viviendas-vallecas-09.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pLxIbFYiq5VhZ5BRkOUh7o90KTDfymF1WlYfmH2OhVJOxSTeYAjnPLQxwhSp2Osj2vSf_GbxUel6eS8P7Wov5wg/viviendas-vallecas-09.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pvWldWeou7_4zrVqt345E1OWzSn-cwPJLI8Qig3T0cqnWstKEekt1bQVgljs-fkQNFJx66F2jQ4Ax151PKxprZw/viviendas-vallecas-10.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pvWldWeou7_4zrVqt345E1OWzSn-cwPJLI8Qig3T0cqnWstKEekt1bQVgljs-fkQNFJx66F2jQ4Ax151PKxprZw/viviendas-vallecas-10.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:times new roman;">3. STRUCTURAL SOLUTION</span></strong></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><br />A mixed structural solution in concrete and steel is considered. The main body of the building is solved in reinforced concrete, whereas the circulation system of galleries and the stairs which carry vertical connection inserted in the inner patio are solved in steel, including the accompanying pavements of galvanized steel plate.</span></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pMBKyoy8LSIRuaoXZV3Oxuu5f9l7F-RSOgeTGnxVXfz5TgAIpZvhmHLMZhgbEowuee4Ny_BKv-X_vXWxfJjA1fQ/viviendas-vallecas-11.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pMBKyoy8LSIRuaoXZV3Oxuu5f9l7F-RSOgeTGnxVXfz5TgAIpZvhmHLMZhgbEowuee4Ny_BKv-X_vXWxfJjA1fQ/viviendas-vallecas-11.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pvhMFeBRsTxsGJTA0IJ-szfudEC0ef_lRmGbJn3I0tgDo__eC9WG193qvlSoYYtRWml2isciuJFVUkurU4mDScw/viviendas-vallecas-12.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pvhMFeBRsTxsGJTA0IJ-szfudEC0ef_lRmGbJn3I0tgDo__eC9WG193qvlSoYYtRWml2isciuJFVUkurU4mDScw/viviendas-vallecas-12.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="left"><br />Architect: <a href="http://www.somosarquitectos.es/">SOMOS Arquitectos</a></div><div align="left">Location: Madrid, Spain</div><div align="left">Project Architects: Luis Burriel Bielza, Pablo Fernandez Lewicki, Jose Antonio Tallon Iglesias</div><div align="left">Structural Engineer: Deroman S.L.</div><div align="left">Engineering: GD Inco S.L.</div><div align="left">Quantity Surveyors: Miguel Asensio Rivera & Maria Jose Lapuerta Morante</div><div align="left">Façade Consultant: Proesga</div><div align="left">Project year: 2006</div><div align="left">Construction year: 2007-2009</div><div align="left">Budget: $6,115,627.97 Euro</div><div align="left">Project Area: 14,934 sqm</div><div align="left">Photographs: SOMOS Arquitectos </div><div align="center"><br /><a href="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pDoF7T4NgTV0EEDH9E8ugOC3jpAmPxYAwjeVZ4AM3kucoFzxMtKPHLFrkCsmSInORc39-ggJ2yyvPizzlLJAWpw/vallecas-estacionamientos.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Edificio-de-viviendas, SOMOS-Arquitectos, diseño, casas, arquitectura" border="0" src="http://5pp2ng.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pDoF7T4NgTV0EEDH9E8ugOC3jpAmPxYAwjeVZ4AM3kucoFzxMtKPHLFrkCsmSInORc39-ggJ2yyvPizzlLJAWpw/vallecas-estacionamientos.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; 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Vallecas 51 - SOMOS Arquitectos

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Casa Delpin - Fuster + Partners Architects

<span style="font-family:times new roman;"><em>” …a great deal of the history of Architecture can be understood as an intent to transform horizontal or diagonal light into light that will look vertical.”</em></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><em>A. Campo Baeza</em></span><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh30jrc82oaWy1AVQwYrbvi1a3-14hCCbp9W87-IyjuBTi-J1HxSw5hEEdvDNzPMyuZaqCKRfz_eE1-eB9pWZynoyYb7M9QbNZv5TKkmPsZW4AE6TbnuY4U77FdwjQvGdEhe_WK6nU5sVQg/s0/casa-delpin-01.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Casa-Delpin, FUSTER+Partners-Architects, arquitectura, casas, diseño" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh30jrc82oaWy1AVQwYrbvi1a3-14hCCbp9W87-IyjuBTi-J1HxSw5hEEdvDNzPMyuZaqCKRfz_eE1-eB9pWZynoyYb7M9QbNZv5TKkmPsZW4AE6TbnuY4U77FdwjQvGdEhe_WK6nU5sVQg/s0/casa-delpin-01.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Casa Delpín is the product of the renovation and addition to an existing single-family structure located on a small lot on the Miramar sector in San Juan. The existing structure was typical of many suburban houses in the metropolitan area with dark, hot, segregated interior spaces that negated any relationship between the interior and the exterior.</span></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6bi8foEB0WzHgZZjeAHjxiw3G63QC5xWc8XgKi185rPnlGLJXpS840UOxudh887tBOlbpyTy7W8_bQn08MClpVShvxQD-sjiwo37Nao1Hzk2L3hwbO3U3PlWEWEAY2CJpY_wd8gqLYLyg/s0/casa-delpin-02.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Casa-Delpin, FUSTER+Partners-Architects, arquitectura, casas, diseño" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6bi8foEB0WzHgZZjeAHjxiw3G63QC5xWc8XgKi185rPnlGLJXpS840UOxudh887tBOlbpyTy7W8_bQn08MClpVShvxQD-sjiwo37Nao1Hzk2L3hwbO3U3PlWEWEAY2CJpY_wd8gqLYLyg/s0/casa-delpin-02.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The design objective was to create a spatially rich living experience and provide for a greater capacity for passive lighting and cooling, while also allowing for the use of mechanical cooling when needed. This is achieved through a variety of construction elements.</span> </div><div align="center"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuiJjIRV8iXTRZTACQAdPtxFkRjRS0iyWqJZ0Liee-K5aO0UffobwJgczVWIfqVMbAL5w_0IS_RhuTf0-7Y33bX_C0T6DIDa6VpSrIPFAhZYLwpnQbOSFBIvf8myEhbjQZBCWEJQ5RYtna/s0/casa-delpin-03.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Casa-Delpin, FUSTER+Partners-Architects, arquitectura, casas, diseño" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuiJjIRV8iXTRZTACQAdPtxFkRjRS0iyWqJZ0Liee-K5aO0UffobwJgczVWIfqVMbAL5w_0IS_RhuTf0-7Y33bX_C0T6DIDa6VpSrIPFAhZYLwpnQbOSFBIvf8myEhbjQZBCWEJQ5RYtna/s0/casa-delpin-03.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"></div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The perforated glass reinforced concrete (GRC) panels (that mimic the patterns of the hydraulic concrete floor tiles designed for this house that also complement the preexisting tiles) help to redefine and reorient exterior public patios and interstitial spaces towards the interior. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">This strategy of absorbing the remnant exterior areas of the lot into the family’s living spaces allows the house to open up (both horizontally as well as vertically) while, at the same time, providing greater privacy. Additionally, the new materials and finishes attempt to dialogue with the existing ones while gaining their own expressive independence, at times through contrast but through parity as well.</span></div><div align="center"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYwLtM64_p1_giiA1Tg0oy6p7c2bDd2lNX-bTXpRATmJGfFZ8Pc0BoG6QU-KI6gTpnLQJFr2p5XJG1RUXGkCi1BFu5W9yvTVluxwgxYFErQ2NNc4liWM934Pir1GvYR6-RWtXAKXr5HirW/s0/casa-delpin-06.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Casa-Delpin, FUSTER+Partners-Architects, arquitectura, casas, diseño" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYwLtM64_p1_giiA1Tg0oy6p7c2bDd2lNX-bTXpRATmJGfFZ8Pc0BoG6QU-KI6gTpnLQJFr2p5XJG1RUXGkCi1BFu5W9yvTVluxwgxYFErQ2NNc4liWM934Pir1GvYR6-RWtXAKXr5HirW/s0/casa-delpin-06.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">The main character of the addition is natural light, which vertically penetrates and diffuses throughout the house through deep cylindrical skylights and GRC “screens” to reflect on the exposed materials and watery surface of the pool. The spatially and temporally dramatic quality of the pool brings climatic focus (visual and sensorial) to both the dinning and living rooms that border it on two sides.</span></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Architects: Nataniel Fúster/ <a href="http://fusterpartners.com/">FUSTER + Partners Architects</a></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Location: Miramar, Puerto Rico</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Design team: Nataniel Fúster, George Stewart, Angel Rodriguez</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Program: House Refurbishment</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Client: Carlos y Eneida Delpin</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Contractors: Julio vega, Marcelino Mojica</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Structural Engineer: Luis Daza</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Budget: US 400,000</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Project year: 2006</span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Photographs: Fuster + Partners</span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"></span> </div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF0IUJ2cSvHKx2LNInyrf5u6E-uyo2y8Rsb0_J4QXCC7H_weOakaQ4iLZrGsp2QyOSiF7d2znDPiVZVgOpBQsZtQHrFFrBzK4HxcXcSvx3oREnqyc9iG_frlTZnpW44ngzngAg8hW9HoUU/s400/casa-delpin-05.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Casa-Delpin, FUSTER+Partners-Architects, arquitectura, casas, diseño" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF0IUJ2cSvHKx2LNInyrf5u6E-uyo2y8Rsb0_J4QXCC7H_weOakaQ4iLZrGsp2QyOSiF7d2znDPiVZVgOpBQsZtQHrFFrBzK4HxcXcSvx3oREnqyc9iG_frlTZnpW44ngzngAg8hW9HoUU/s400/casa-delpin-05.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJ3ktZhu2eHGcEM5lkabFMkV1kPDHdjTJV9LdejI-JuiIDP0M8-ikjx8DMgZXmoP7xgvfqKSrGPkwRS5zCp1JiCMXQg8E6i6OKY4ano-YZ085uLw05f6UjorXupywqdvWG_JWBu9LLkAY/s0/casa-delpin-04.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Casa-Delpin, FUSTER+Partners-Architects, arquitectura, casas, diseño" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpJ3ktZhu2eHGcEM5lkabFMkV1kPDHdjTJV9LdejI-JuiIDP0M8-ikjx8DMgZXmoP7xgvfqKSrGPkwRS5zCp1JiCMXQg8E6i6OKY4ano-YZ085uLw05f6UjorXupywqdvWG_JWBu9LLkAY/s0/casa-delpin-04.jpg" style="WIDTH: 550px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /></div>

Casa Delpin - Fuster + Partners Architects

” …a great deal of the history of Architecture can be understood as an intent to transform horizontal or diagonal light into light that will...

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