PJCArchitecture has accomplished a micro-home in Napoles, Ecuador with two brick types related by a glass bridge
that depends on passive heating and cooling.
New York Metropolis-based PJCArchitecture leveraged Make Estudio, its design-build division in Ecuador, to assemble the 700-square-foot (65-square-metre) weekend getaway on the nook of a quarter-acre lot.
“The design relies not solely on the consumer’s wants however on her need to embrace the native atmosphere, tradition, and vernacular,” mentioned lead architect Nandar Godoy-Dinneen. “It was additionally closely formed by the supply of development supplies and by working throughout the native traditions.”
The studio sourced native brick, metal, concrete and glass as the house’s main supplies.
Created with native craftsmen and crew in 2022, the home seems to be a single strong brick kind from far-off, however on strategy, two brick lots seem.
The bigger kind is a double-height house that holds a front room with a freestanding bronze fire. The eating room and kitchen are tucked beneath a versatile loft house, accessed by a metal ladder.
“Customized-built floor-to-ceiling glass and steel doorways mix the boundaries between indoors and out, maximizing pure gentle and capturing exterior views of the panorama whereas contributing to a extra spacious feeling within the house,” the studio mentioned.
The smaller brick kind incorporates a bed room with a glazed wall and a rest room with a perforated brick wall that brings gentle and shadows via the display and serves as a wall planter on the outside.
A glass and concrete bridge connects the 2 packing containers.
“Its gentle quantity helps to emphasise the essential idea of the home, which is 2 almost-pure brick and steel buildings related to change into one cohesive construction,” Godoy-Dinneen mentioned.
Using vernacular constructing methods, the house has no lively methods however depends on passive photo voltaic design to accommodate the local weather’s shifting temperatures.
The brick partitions function a thermal mass, releasing saved warmth at evening, whereas the operable doorways and home windows present cross air flow via the home and the encompassing bushes shade the massive expanses of glass.
“We needed to create a non-pretentious construction that included all this system necessities and embrace the atmosphere and native traditions,” Godoy-Dinneen mentioned. Following a ‘much less is extra’ motto, the studio realized that “a easy mission with a restricted finances could be as profitable as a big and extra advanced one.”
Close by in Quito, ERDC Arquitectos and Taller Normal’s Horno de Pan was additionally constructed with brick in an analogous format, nevertheless this home is characterised by a vaulted roof.
The images is by Juank Paredes.
Challenge credit:
Design workforce: Nandar Godoy-Dinneen (Lead Architect), Philip Consalvo, Julian Uribe, Juliana Sorzano
Building: Alfonso Toasa
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