Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Collective Housing
14/09/2017.
[Quito] Ecuador
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The four houses of 300 m² are adapted to the landscape which has steep slope introducing the volumes into the land generating terraces and green spaces.
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Houses FF by TEC Taller EC. Photograph © Bicubik, Sebastián Crespo, Andres Fernández
Access floor plan. Houses FF by TEC Taller EC
First floor plan. Houses FF by TEC Taller EC
Second floor plan. Houses FF by TEC Taller EC
Roof floor plan. Houses FF by TEC Taller EC
Section. Houses FF by TEC Taller EC
Section. Houses FF by TEC Taller EC
The project by TEC Taller EC consists on four houses each composed of three semi-buried proportional volumes that seek to establish relations between public and private space, forming an urban landscape. Illuminated by the deck the project plays with lighting and views.
Description of the project by TEC Taller EC
The concept of the project originates due to the physical parameters of the terrain - steep slope due to its location in the Cordillera de los Andes - and the client requirements of 4 single-family homes of 300 m2. An analysis is made both in section and plan of the plot where a collective project is conceived, interpreted by a series of volumes introduced in the ground with different heights and depths that generate terraced green areas at different levels, each one of the interior spaces has views of the forest to the front and access to the different terraces that are conjugated with the natural environment of the site.
All the volumes are projected as visors that have a direct relationship - visual and spatial - between interior and exterior spaces, achieving continuity between public, semi - public and private spaces. The served spaces are located towards the exterior due to the views, illumination and ventilation while the vertical circulations that connect these volumes are semi buried and illuminated from the roof, turning the project into a composition of lights and shadows in its inside, working the fifth facade as a main layer, within the programmatic system that generates different dynamics in its internal spaces.
Each house is made up of 3 volumes of different proportions which are located at different levels according to the internal activity and its pedestrian and vehicular entrances, breaking the internal monotony where the double height main volume contains public activities - with a mezzanine with semi public activities, and 2 simple height volumes for private activities. These volumes are connected by a main vertical core with a continuous circulation, which alternates to the other volume as it distributes the spaces.
The 12 volumes that make up the 4 houses are located strategically to adapt to the slope of the terrain but the use of these is overlapping in each body like a fabric, that is to say, the internal use is moving horizontally and vertically in the project generating both transverse and longitudinal views in the exterior and interior, transforming the built masses into a urban landscape.
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Architects
TEC Taller EC
Partners in Charge
Pablo Castro Guijarro, Roberto Morales Guijarro
Design Team
Juan Ruiz, Héctor Barreto, Vladimir Tapia, Maricela Galán, Eduardo Obach, Luis Antonio Espinoza, José López, Adriana Guerrero, Paolo Caicedo, Alejandro Viteri.
Construction Construcción
Eduardo Castro Orbe, Javier Proaño
Client
Figueroa Family
Area
1200 m²
Location
San Juan de Cumbayá, Quito-Ecuador
Dates
2016-2017
Pablo Castro Guijarro, Roberto Morales Guijarro Taller EC
TEC – Taller EC is an architectural studio based in Quito (Ecuador) and currently also working from Madrid (Spain), led by Pablo Castro Guijarro and Roberto Morales Guijarro since 2013. It’s formed by a group of professionals from different nationalities whose work aims to externalize their thinking and global vision in every architectural, urban, research or academic project.
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