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Tuesday, 24 February 2009 03:17 |
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Located on a valley to the east of Quito, within an area that enjoys a temperate climate all year round. It is quite a privileged setting due to the proximity of the local mountain ranges.
Unfortunately, the surrounding built context consists mainly of colonial style houses with a total disregard for the local topography, landscape or climate.
The site is relatively small, enclosed by three roads, with mandatory 5
m (15 ft) setback, a strong negative gradient and an unavoidable
location due to road levels and accessibility to the garages.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 February 2009 04:06 |
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Friday, 21 November 2008 01:59 |
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 Arquitectura X went through the challenging task of designing this house before any site got allocated to the project. It pushed them in setting out an elemental scheme that could work both in both the urban environment of Ecuador’s capital, Quito and the valleys east of the city. They distilled their experience into an abstracted form, inspired by the work of Donald Judd that could be placed in any of the sites they would eventually find: an open ended box whose spatial limits would be the eastern and western ranges of the Andes.
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Last Updated on Friday, 21 November 2008 03:54 |
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