House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura

House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Exterior Photography, Wood, GardenHouse Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Interior Photography, Wood, Glass, BeamHouse Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Interior Photography, Bedroom, Wood, BedHouse Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Exterior Photography, GardenHouse Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - More Images+ 41

  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  2713 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2019
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  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Aserradero San Alfonso, Franz Viegener, Imptek, Placacentro Masisa Ecuador, Rothoblaas Ecuador, Seteco, Soroche de los Andes
  • Lead Architects: Xavier Duque, María Mercedes Reinoso, Nicolás Viteri
  • Executive Drawing Collaboration: Marie Combette
  • Joinery: Juan Cajamarca
  • Brickwork: Cristian Espinoza
  • Illustration: Carlos Valarezo
  • City: Quito
  • Country: Ecuador
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House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Exterior Photography, Garden
© José de la Torre

Text description provided by the architects. In a plot with large trees, the client sought to live in proximity to nature, that it must become a characteristic part of the architecture and that it gets inhabited as well as the built object.

House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Exterior Photography
© Andrés Villota
Site plan - 1:125 Paper A1
House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Exterior Photography
© Andrés Villota

Respecting the trees and shrubs of the land, a modular path, in which different living spaces connect between themselves, is defined. The social spaces opens to the path and to the visual projection of nature and closes towards the street, the private ones closes towards the path and become completely withdrawn.

House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Interior Photography, Wood, Glass, Beam
© Andrés Villota

As condition, each constructed space has a visual relationship and a direct physical connection with at least one natural space. While the path clearly defines the central garden of the house as semi-private, the living spaces give their own character to their gardens.

House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Exterior Photography, Garden, Courtyard
© José de la Torre

In spaces in need of privacy such as bedrooms and bathrooms, the character is introverted. Its gardens are delimited by load-bearing facades filled with bahareque and by exterior walls, which separated from living spaces, ensure privacy and direct connection with nature.

House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Interior Photography, Wood, Glass
© Isabel Delgado
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House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Interior Photography, Bedroom, Wood, Bed
© Isabel Delgado

In spaces intended for social activities such as kitchen, dining room and living room, the character is extroverted. .

House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Interior Photography, Beam
© José de la Torre
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Illustration 01
House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Exterior Photography, Garden, Beam
© Andrés Villota

The gardens are delimited by glass-filled load-bearing facades, windows and doors that ensure visual permeability towards the constructed object and by the plot boundaries

House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Interior Photography, Wood, Beam, Garden
© José de la Torre
House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Interior Photography
Illustration 02
House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Exterior Photography, Garden
© Andrés Villota

The load-bearing facades combine the notion of structure with that of frame. Prefabricating with solid wood a single type of minimal cross-shaped column, repeating it in 1.22m modules and joining them together in their thirds, we create load-bearing facades that ensure structural stability and result in spans with dimensions suitable for anchoring glass, windows, doors and bahareques according to what the character of the built object impose.

House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura - Exterior Photography, Garden
© Andrés Villota

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Cite: "House Among Trees / El Sindicato Arquitectura" [Casa entre árboles / El Sindicato Arquitectura] 19 Feb 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/933622/house-among-trees-el-sindicato-arquitectura> ISSN 0719-8884

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