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House Branches and Rocks / Ruptura Morlaca Arquitectura

Valeria Silva — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:00:00 +0000

The essence of our proposal revolves around the integration of a residence into the serene natural setting of the Nulti mountain, a rural parish in the Cuenca canton, Ecuador. Our primary intention was to respect and preserve the natural dialogue between the existing trees and the mountain, distinctive elements of this idyllic landscape.

Hortencia Mata House / Temporal Arquitectura

Andreas Luco — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

This project considers architecture as a physical act, coinciding with what Helio Piñón clearly states in his writing “proyectar es construir” where he points out that when building a project, one must not only refer to its material constructive logic but also to its formal logic. That is to say, it is not only the building technique that guarantees the material consistency and predicts the permanence of the projects, but it is also the visual relationship between the constituent elements of the work, which is an essential objective of the project. Therefore, we work with the manipulation of physical characteristics both for support and protection from the climatic agents of nature. In their arrangement, they make up the architectural space for the purpose of human habitat.

Warehouse House / Sebastián Mora Arquitecto

Clara Ott — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:00:00 +0000

The owners of an old flower warehouse located in the Yunguilla Valley, Azuay, decided to build a country house for their family on the site where a plantation once operated. The first question was whether we should keep the existing construction or demolish it. Since the warehouse was in good condition, the decision was made to renovate it and adapt it to its new function.

Downtown Restaurant / Iván Quizhpe Arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:00:00 +0000

In the Historic Center of Cuenca, within the Todos Santos neighborhood, characterized by its main use of bakeries and traditional wood-fired ovens, this project is developed that encourages a similar use. The design employs essential principles of the architecture of the past in contemporary language, not only through typology and materiality, but also through formal austerity.

Cement Curtain / Ruptura Morlaca Arquitectura

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 06:00:00 +0000

With a position of respect towards the nature (artificial or natural) of the site and with the aim of integrating the new use of study house, it is resolved to preserve the pre-existing ones: a mediagua that functioned as an office, the green area with a mandarin tree and two pedestrian accesses the first a gravel absorbent floor (informal) and the second a cement platform (formal) which worked as a main income to the office, executing an intervention that maintains the integrity of the artificial system.

Gravitational Indifference / Ruptura Morlaca Arquitectura

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 09:00:00 +0000

The desire to live of the users on a serene, silent, vast, spacious and full of trees, where nature is able to show its greatness, has led them to identify a place in the sector of Ricaurte in Cuenca-Ecuador, a almost intact site that in the mornings is stripped of a mist characteristic of the mountains of the area that floats on the sloping territory managing to guide the gaze to the top of the trees, mountains and clouds.

Isabela Building / Ruptura Morlaca Arquitectura

Valentina Villa — Mon, 01 May 2017 09:00:00 +0000

Background

The project raised a great challenge and in turn a great opportunity for the program because it is located in an area of high added value but with an immediate deteriorated context, showing a direct view towards an "abandoned" construction and a service station in The Isabela Catholic Avenue in the city of Cuenca- Ecuador

House PY / ModulARQ arquitectura

Florencia Mena — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 11:00:00 +0000

The house is placed in Challabamba's sector to a few minutes of the downtown of Cuenca; the area for this project thinks to a few meters of the Rio Tomebamba, the same one that he presents green spaces accompanied of vegetation of fall, average and high density, giving a natural environment of importance to be taken this way.

Stone House / Inai Arquitectura

Florencia Mena — Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:00:00 +0000

The project has 145 square meters on two floors and a terrace. The building location is an important factor because it is on the lower side of Turi, a natural viewpoint of the city of Cuenca-Ecuador where there were some retaining stone walls from a destroyed and abandoned construction. These walls were originally raised to stop the gradient of over 30% of the natural slope, which is why they are included as part of the formal and structural design.

Refurbishment of Garcimuñoz Castle / Izaskun Chinchilla

Florencia Mena — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 09:00:00 +0000

The Refurbishment of Garcimuñoz Medieval Castle has three main purposes:

Covalco Offices / INAI.Paul Vazquez

Karen Valenzuela — Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:00:00 +0000

The Covalco project is an architectural structure of approximately 1200 square meters built between inland areas and covered outdoor areas, divided into four floors. This configuration is contained in an area of 4.266,94 square meters, located in a natural viewpoint to the south of the city of Cuenca, with relevant topographic conditions that remain the same almost entirely as if the building didn't reach the area where the contours are more pronounced in an effort to take care of the geodesy of the ground.

CF House / Christian Calle Figueroa

Karen Valenzuela — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 01:00:00 +0000

CF house arises from a commission in which the traditional features of a country house in Ecuador were requested: entrance space, grill, poorly permeable bedrooms and an attic, additionally it was required not to use wood in the structure. The project budget was very limited for the size of the house, which required the use of standard, economic construction materials.

Loma House / Iván Quizhpe Arquitectos

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The building involved is a rural traditional house of the twentieth century. It was inventoried by the National Institute of Cultural Heritage (Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural, INPC). It’s situated in the highest part of a property with a steep angle in the area of San Joaquin. This is a historically known farming place that provides with vegetables to the city of Cuenca.

Healthcare Center and Regional Government Offices / ARQUITECNICA + BAT

Cristian Aguilar — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:00:00 +0000

1. SITUATION AND LOCATION.

Jacobo Building / DURAN&HERMIDA arquitectos asociados

Alejandro Concha — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000

This building is located in the city of Cuenca, so sunlight is almost perpendicular, with variations of 23 degrees at the equinoxes of June and December. It contains one apartment per floor, except for the third top floor where the space is divided between a small apartment and an office.

Casas Casicata / DURAN&HERMIDA arquitectos asociados

Jonathan Alarcón — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000

These houses are located at “Los Andes” mountains, in a place with steep slopes, at a peripheral sector of the city of Cuenca (2500m over the sea level) It has fabulous sights to the city, to the Cajas Natural Park and to San Joaquín (agricultural area that supplies food to the city). The goal of the project is to take advantage of these views and to build in steep slopes learning from vernacular houses.