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House in La Siria 02 / Plan:b arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:00:00 +0000

We distribute the program of this house into two parallel brick volumes, articulated by an elongated courtyard. In the northern strip, we locate the private areas (bathrooms and bedrooms), and in the southern strip, we place the social areas (living room, dining room, kitchen).

CHCW House / Plan:b arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000

This commission involved renovating and adapting a traditional two-story house in the Provenza neighborhood in Medellín to transform it into common workspaces and small apartments, sharing services. The house, which had already been converted years ago into the offices of a local real estate company, had a stable structure of load-bearing walls, floors, roofs, and wooden ceilings that we decided to renew and maintain.

BA'RA Hotel / Plan:b arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Mon, 01 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Joao Pessoa is a tropical, coastal city with a regular, flat urban fabric that develops along an extensive tourist beach. The Ba'ra hotel, with 126 rooms of variable areas -22, 32, 52, and 72m2- is located in a block facing the beach and accessed from Avenida Cabo Branco. This street is a vehicular axis parallel to the beach, a cycle path, and a recreational space for walkers, athletes, and popular festivals.

Amaluna House / Plan:b arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 03:00:00 +0000

Faced with this single-family country house's extensive program, we divided the main spaces into eleven volumes, arranging them irregularly in a lot with a large flat area.

Landmark Hotel / Plan:b arquitectos

Agustina Coulleri — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Faced with a regular urban layout of elongated blocks, a narrow lot and strict regulations on heights, overhangs and setbacks, we proposed a building that crosses the block from north to south, creating a "U" shaped floor plan and leaving a central patio. open to the existing pedestrian walkway on the western side. In this way, the building offers the city a new semi-public space, simultaneously generating adequate lighting and natural ventilation conditions for the rooms without a façade facing the street.

Environmental Classroom UES / Plan:b arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:00:00 +0000

This project was commissioned by the TAGMA Civil Association, dedicated to developing educational, participatory, and sustainable projects in Latin America. They have built a network of nine environmental classrooms in various countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia, etc. To carry out these small-format educational buildings, they seek allies in the regions: municipalities, public educational institutions, private companies, communities, and teams of local architects. After a participatory design process, they carry out the construction phase as an educational event with architecture and construction students and various participants guided by an international team of teachers who travel to the site; finally, they accompany and advise future academic activities.

House in Mendihuaca / Plan:b arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Faced with a strong slope of the land towards the Mendihuaca river and a context of surrounding native forest, we proposed to carry out the least number of earthworks in the place, generating a narrow and extensive terrace to locate the project.

House in Cartagena / Plan:b arquitectos

Valeria Silva — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:00:00 +0000

We designed this house based on the dynamic shape of the lot, complying with strict urban regulation of setbacks, use of materials, and flat roofs. We proposed an elongated house in the east-west direction on a single level. A volume adapted to the sinuous configuration of the existing lake on the south side and the warm and tropical weather of Cartagena.

House in La Calera / Plan:b arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 14:00:00 +0000

This project's challenge consisted of designing a compact house adapted to the irregular geometry of the lot, its changing levels, and regulation with a strict limit of the built area on the first floor. We leave the only small flat space of the lot for the parking. In this way, we cut the sloping area of the land (45% slope), generating a terrace to locate a longitudinal volume, taking advantage of the best views of the natural landscape.

House in La Siria / Plan:b arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 07:00:00 +0000

The challenge in this project was to design a compact and affordable country house with local technology and connected to the surrounding mountainous and tropical context. First, we defined the position of the house following strict setbacks regulation and taking advantage of a previously made earthwork. We located the built volume on a narrow strip of land surrounded by native forests and on the existing flat terrace. In this way, the social area faces the distant landscape to the north, and the house does not cast shadows on the pool at any time.

Casa en Envigado 2 / Plan:b arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:00:00 +0000

This house is designed to connect two elongated and parallel volumes to a fragment of a very close native forest. In the volume closest to the forest the main bedroom, living room, dining room, kitchen, and service areas are located. The second volume has the library, study, guest room, and parking area.

House in Envigado / Plan:b arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 02:00:00 +0000

This house is made up by 4 cubic volumes, each one with 2 levels, that form a rectangular patio. Independently, each volume opens windows to various areas of the exterior landscape, as a group they revolve around the green and introspective patio.

Hotel Click Clack Medellín / Plan:b arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 02:00:00 +0000

This hotel is built in one of the blocks of the orthogonal urban fabric of the traditional neighbourhood, El Poblado, in Medellín. The new construction completes the block and pierces it, creating a pedestrian crossing, an internal park and new semi-public spaces: a passage, stairs, a courtyard, a podium, platforms, terraces and a covered square. The building itself is an urban crossing with a permeable configuration. It has several accesses and is surrounded by native vegetation. This building is designed so that the daily life of the city coexists with the activities of the hotel and its users. It has been conceived as an epicentre, a centre of diverse cultural events that seek to promote local creative industries through art, gastronomic events, fairs, concerts, theatre, nightlife and various types of recreation. The life of the hotel and the city are to be mixed and to complement each other.

House in Sajonia / Plan:b arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:00:00 +0000

This house was designed for a rural plot of land that is part of a high mountain that descends into the Valley of San Nicolás, to the east of Medellin. The site was transformed and flattened previous to the start of the design. Therefore, the goal was to occupy the empty space left from the earth works with the house while it shaped a flat patio with the existing slopes and benefitted from the best distant views. The reddish colors of the exposed tropical earth and the green of the local vegetation were used as a basis for the design as well as the wall and exposed metal structure color choice.

House in La Esperanza / Plan:b arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:00:00 +0000

This house is an instrument to border the far away landscape of the mountain forest. It is a long bar that borders the access road, the close by vegetation and the rural and distant nature.

Miguel Valencia Educational Institution / Plan:b arquitectos

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:00:00 +0000

This new school was planned on the footprint of previous constructions in bad condition and on a floor with low resistance. This obliged us to erect buildings of only one floor located on the most stable strip of land and also maintaining the existing sport field slabs.

Siete Vueltas Rural Educational Institution / Plan:b arquitectos

Clara Ott — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000

In an arid landscape and an almost flat land of the municipality of San Juan de Urabá, this school was built replacing previous buildings in very poor condition. Around a wide area of games and the soccer field, modular buildings form a polygonal perimeter, with corridors to the interior, and silent facades to the outside.

Chaparral Rural School / Plan:b arquitectos

Daniela Cardenas — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:00:00 +0000

This project consists of replacing a school in bad conditions for a new building, using the same plot of land on Chaparral lane in the Municipality of San Vicente Ferrer located in the central mountain range, at 2150m above sea level and a two-hour bus journey from Medellin. It is a rural school for the children of the farmers of the region.