The Bricks of This Quito Home Were Handmade at the Foot of a Nearby Volcano

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Location: Quito, Ecuador

Architect: Cordada / @cordada_arch

Footprint: 2,475 sq. ft

Civil Engineer: Patricio Cevallos

Carpenter: Alfredo Acosta

Photographer: JAG Studio / @jag_studio

From the Architect: “Arupo rises serenely earlier than the Ilaló volcano, within the Cornejo neighborhood of Conocoto. It’s the residence of a pair who embrace retirement not as an ending however as a threshold into a unique time: slower in work, but extra intense in love for his or her kids and grandchildren. An intimate refuge, but open—able to welcome household, pals, and the movement of life itself. The reminiscence of an accident gave them the understanding that residing ought to imply freedom from boundaries. The home embraces the slope with ramps linking three ranges in a steady journey, nearly as if all had been a single aircraft. Motion turns into fluid, accessible, uninterrupted.

“Its practically sq. plan unfolds round an arupo tree embraced by a fountain within the central patio. Right here, time turns into seen: the pink blossoms announce the seasons, drought and rain go away their traces on the partitions, dawns and sunsets framed by the patio remind the inhabitants that every day is exclusive. This inexperienced and liquid coronary heart brings collectively the social and the intimate, whereas gently opening to Ilaló and its gardens.

“The development rests on three rules: consolation, proximity, and intimacy. Load-bearing partitions of handmade brick, produced on the slopes of the very volcano that dominates the view, reveal of their irregularity the imprint of human labor. Above them, a picket roof multiplies the heat of sunshine, creating areas woven with shadows—refuges inhabited by time.”