Ecuadorian architects Ignacio Muñoz Bustamante and Javier Mera Luna have teamed as much as increase a lodge with three new visitor rooms constructed with metallic vaulted roofs over stone partitions in Papallacta, Ecuador.
Often called Las Pajareras, the visitor rooms are a part of Guango Lodge, a 300-acre (121 hectares) property between the Papallacta River and the Chalpi Mountain vary that has been maintained and conserved by the identical household for greater than 50 years.
Positioned at an altitude of 2700 meters above sea stage, the realm is known as for its resemblance to an Indigenous Ecuadorian braid (guango) resulting from a number of converging Andean mountain ranges and is a vacation spot for chook watchers, photographers and conservationists.
Drawing on the final stylistic pointers of the earlier buildings, Las Pajareras was constructed to increase housing capability with three rooms and a shared outside patio totalling 130 sq. metres (1,400 sq. ft).
An preliminary construction was constructed within the Nineteen Sixties with load-bearing flagstone partitions set on a skinny concrete slab and topped with a vault system product of curved bamboo cane. Though not standing, the primary constructing served as a mannequin for a still-standing home constructed in 1996.
The second home is a two-storey longitudinal home with river stone partitions supporting an extended bolstered concrete vault. The bottom ground holds a kitchen and eating space, whereas the higher stage consists of visitor rooms underneath the wood staves of the vault with small arched home windows that look out on the encircling forest.
Accomplished in 2024, the challenge incorporates the kinds of the present constructions whereas “reinterpreting this building system from a up to date perspective, honor[ing] the reminiscence and footprint of those that developed it,” the staff stated.
Ignacio Muñoz Bustamante and Javier Mera Luna sited the constructing on a small strip of floor between the present constructing and an oil pipeline, edging the three versatile modules alongside a ravine and orienting the items with views to the Papallacta River.
“The marginally offset positioning of the rooms from one another permits them to settle into the accessible area with a gesture of motion,” the staff stated.
“Emphasizing the rhythm and repetition of the weather in every of the rooms permits and highlights the view and the connection with the forest and the river, whereas on the identical time producing privateness on every exterior porch.”
South of the items sits a small patio with a toilet block subsequent to a trapezoidal pool.
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The constructing is constructed of 4 supplies. A cyclopean concrete basis is topped with 60-centimetre basaltic stone partitions secured with tie chains and a metallic construction.
The structural partitions serve a thermoacoustic perform – utilizing BIOM thermoacoustic insulation made out of agricultural waste – and incorporate space for storing for a fold-out mattress.
The partitions that separate the items maintain a concrete “channel” that cantilevers over the river in an effort to divert water “again into the forest” and to assist the prefabricated wood trusses that vault over every room.
The U-channel offers a transition from the stone partitions to modular prefabricated wood trusses. The vaults are a sandwich of pine wooden construction and 15-millimetre plywood – ornamental on the inside and industrial on the outside.
Above, the vaults are topped with waterproofing and black galvanized metallic.
Moreover, the staff put in a wastewater therapy plant for the complete lodge that returns water to its pure sources after use.
Different tasks not too long ago accomplished in Ecuador embrace a floating wood home on the Babahoyo River designed by Natura Futura Arquitectura and Juan Carlos Bamba and a two-toned brick and stucco home in Quito by PJCArchitecture and Juan Pablo Ribadeneira.
The images is by JAG studio.
Undertaking credit:
Structure: Ignacio Muñoz Bustamante, Javier Mera LunaConstruction: Ignacio Muñoz Bustamante, Javier Mera LunaCollaborators: Hector Quilca, Josue Yanacallo, Xavier Navarrete, Diego ChagllaGraphics: Ignacio Muñoz Bustamante, José Enrique Pérez
