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House Among Gardens / TEC Taller EC

House Among Gardens / TEC Taller EC

Project: House Among Gardens
Architecture: TEC Taller EC
Design Team: Pablo Castro, Roberto Morales, Juan Ruiz, Daniela Veinitimilla, Maria Emilia Arellano
Construction Team: Cynthia Quintero, Paolo Caicedo
Structural Engineer: Pedro Ospina
Landscape: Romina Delgado
Location: Cumbaya, Ecuador
Area: 280 m²
Year: 2023
Photo credits: Paolo Caicedo

The House Among Gardens is a 280m2 residence located in the Cumbayá Valley, 20 minutes from Quito.

As a concept, the typology of a single-family home is decomposed and formed from a grid of eight modules, four built and four open. These spaces relate to each other and alternate through a clear longitudinal circulation axis that not only connects the spaces but also divides the public and private areas of the house.

House Among Gardens / TEC Taller EC

This typology of the floor plan allows the house to open towards the gardens and close off the front facade, allowing for greater privacy and a relationship between all the spaces of the house and the green area.

House Among Gardens / TEC Taller EC

The architectural program is divided into two parts; one that houses all the rigid service and bedroom areas, and the second that houses the social area of the living room, dining room, and kitchen, where the main activity of the house takes place.

House Among Gardens / TEC Taller EC

These two main volumes were conceived as a double-height free structure, composed of a semi-solid brick base and a black metallic roof that together achieve the minimum possible materiality. It appears orderly from the outside as a product of its programmatic logic and inside, connecting in a section with the private program of the upper floor. Alongside these volumes, and displaced, are two two-story volumes that house the private program.

House Among Gardens / TEC Taller EC

The result of the design process allows us to read the architecture through the connection of the rooms and gardens connected by an outer ring of pedestrian circulation. The plot has a heavy traffic street in front, which forces us to work on the closed front facade, giving privacy to the house above vehicular and pedestrian flow.

kitchen, TEC Taller EC

In response to the warm climate of the valley, this play of displacement of rooms and gardens generates cross ventilation in the rooms, allowing for adequate thermal comfort in the residence.

kitchen, TEC Taller EC

kitchen, TEC Taller EC

stairs, TEC Taller EC

House Among Gardens / TEC Taller EC

House Among Gardens / TEC Taller EC

House Among Gardens / TEC Taller EC

House Among Gardens / TEC Taller EC

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