Este proyecto corresponde a la remodelación interior de un apartamento en el cuarto piso de un edificio residencial de arquitectura moderna construido en los años 60s.
El encargo solicitaba mantener los tres dormitorios del proyecto original ya que dos de ellos se utilizarían durante algunos fines de semanas para alojar a los nietos de la dueña.
Casa EA
Esta vivienda es la tercera de una serie de proyectos que exploran la indeterminación programática y los sistemas abiertos. El objetivo es promover que los ocupantes de la casa puedan decidir libremente cómo utilizar la vivienda. Definiendo los usos para los distintos recintos.
2023
This project follows the aspiration of designing an affordable and, easy to build and good quality house, previously explored in the SP house’ project. In this case, the brief asked for an inexpensive vacation home facing a river in the south of Chile. Ideally including high passive bioclimatic performance while keeping it easy to maintain from a distance.
The design was a wood cabin covered with metal sheets. The final construction cost was around 1,000 USD/sqm (27UF/sqm). That is a construction cost one step higher than the minimum possible in Chile.
El Proyecto Casa ZA
El proceso es una colaboración con un amigo arquitecto, con larga experiencia en arquitectura industrial, específicamente en el rubro de los paneles prefabricados de refrigeración, para la habilitación de su propia vivienda.
El proyecto contempla la transformación de una vivienda preexistente de los años 70`s que había sido previamente modificada en los años 90’s. La principal acción de esta nueva intervención fue agregar un segundo nivel habitable.
“The house can be simply read as two large spaces, two small spaces, two upper loft areas, and two bathrooms that allow for a number of potential uses”
The brief
My friends Mr S and Ms P wanted a cheap, easy to build beach house with a triangular shaped roof. Their idea was to spend weekends and vacations there, with an intent to possibly move there at some point in the future.
They liked the idea to invite family and friends to stay over and who knows, maybe one day they would have kids and it would certinaly be nice for them to bring their friends to play at the weekend. They didn’t know what would happen in the future, but then, who does?
We started designing the house and suddenly the family grew.
Was it cheap?
The house was relatively cheap for Chilean building standards. Yet, of course not as cheap as the owners would have hoped. The construction cost was approximately 950 USD/sqm.
It was as usual necessary to negotiate between technical quality, general comfort and costs. Thus, the project for us was mostly
about constantly assessing how to achieve a construction that is different from ordinary vernacular, but with resources typical of it. For each element the question arises, and for each question we were eventually challenged to find a way to decide.
“The main strategy was to construct a ‘street’ around the building’s perimeter, where all the various informal interactions between students and faculty members could take place”
Ignacio Urquiza & Bernardo Quinzaños, CCA MX and Lateral Arquitectos (Camilo Moreno) in association with EstudioRO
“54 years after the house was constructed we gave the house a small update, whilst maintaining its original qualities yet removing all interior partitions.”
RVJAA in collaboration with EstudioRO
An architect built the three storeys DA house for himself in 1964. He had 7 children. The boys all slept in the basement and the girls all slept on the second floor.
The family had a piano on the first floor.
In 1970 the architect sold the house to a couple of accountants. this new family used the basement as a taxation consultation, whilst keeping the two floors above as a house for their family.
54 years after the house was constructed we gave the house a small renovation, whilst maintaining its original qualities yet removing all interior partitions.
The new house included a photography studio as well as open domestic spaces.
Exterior additions were also demolished in order to recover the original patio.
“The building is organized around two exterior courtyards. One of these courtyards was conceived as a tropical garden, whilst the other works as a public plaza”
Ignacio Urquiza & Bernardo Quinzaños, CCA MX and Lateral Arquitectos (Camilo Moreno) in association with EstudioRO
In 2017 we submitted our tender for a second competition for EBC, this time for a new 4.500 m2 building on the outskirts of Aguascalientes.
“BC house was designed as a series of neutral modules a series of unprogrammed in-between spaces and a series of technical spaces”
EstudioRO in collaboration with (E)Studio Futur@
In BC house there is no predetermined family room, dining room, master bedroom, storage rooms, office/study nor children’s playroom. Aside from bathrooms there are no predefined uses for spaces.