Gabriel Rivera creates adaptable concrete house in Ecuador

Native studio Gabriel Rivera Arquitectos has designed a concrete home with a big overhang and areas designed to adapt to the various wants of its residents close to Quito, Ecuador.

Often called the Binocular Home, the 564-square metre (6,070-square foot) home is situated on a residential growth referred to as Puembo. It’s oriented with a western view of the town of Quito and a rear facade that welcomes the morning solar.

Gabriel Rivera Arquitectos designed the house in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and reevaluated the homes to function a residence, workplace, faculty, and inexperienced area all on the identical time – fostering household unity with a versatile design.

“From these wants, the architectural idea of the undertaking was born: a strong residence with a big inside connection area that pertains to nature,” the crew instructed Dezeen.

The strengthened concrete home “provides the feeling of floating” with the glazed floor flooring set again behind slender, recycled metallic columns and a big overhanging second flooring.

On the bottom flooring, screened home windows shut the house off from the road, whereas opening as much as the again backyard. Residents enter on the rounded southwest nook right into a double-height dwelling and eating area.

“The double top above the dwelling and eating areas creates a connection between the higher and decrease ranges, reaching a fluid area that invitations customers to come back downstairs,” the crew stated.

An adjoining multipurpose area could be opened to the eating space on one facet, and aluminium and glass doorways stack up, opening the opposite facet of the social areas to the big lined again porch.

A visitor ensuite is tucked away off the kitchen, and the northern finish of the home holds the storage and repair areas.

A central floating staircase — with a darkish wooden zigzag-shaped stringer suspended on skinny black metallic cables – is built-in into the kitchen and results in the higher stage with three bedrooms, a terrace and a multipurpose space that may change based mostly on the wants of the residents.

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“The main bedroom, situated to the west with a view of Quito, offers safety for the house, whereas the secondary bedrooms are sheltered and overlook the rear backyard.”

The up to date interiors are unified by gray porcelain tile flooring, white-painted partitions, black metallic particulars, dark-coloured wooden, and lightweight gray furnishings.

The association promotes pure air flow and lessens the necessity for air-con.

“Binocular Home enhances the standard of lifetime of its customers, as it’s useful in its architectural design and promotes well-being by maximizing pure gentle whereas controlling direct daylight on its facades, decreasing the necessity for synthetic lighting,” the crew stated.

Lately, Gabriel Rivera Arquitectos designed a brick home and using faculty within the Andes Mountains and a home in Nayón that protected the location’s present timber, permitting them to develop by means of and across the residence.

The pictures is by JAG Studio.

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Gabriel Rivera Arquitectos crew: Gabriel Rivera, Diego Rivera, Belén Andrade, Danilo Yambay, Pedro Granizo, Margarita Quishpe