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Lomas Verdes House / Kike Martinez + Marcos Martinez

Andreas Luco — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 07:00:00 +0000

130 km from the Metropolitan area of Asunción, this house is located on a farm with sparse vegetation, located on a hill at the edge of the mountain, in the middle of the meadow.

Tatakua House / Rcubo

Benjamin Zapico — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 03:00:00 +0000

Tatakua in Guarani means the cave where fire lives. It is the clay oven, the stove, and the meeting place for friends. Located in Loma Merlo, a growing neighborhood in the metropolitan area of Asuncion, where urbanity and rurality intertwine and constitute a single landscape with typical characteristics of the global south.

Equipo de Arquitectura: “Our Vision of Architecture Is Primitive and Essential”

Fabian Dejtiar — Mon, 02 May 2022 07:30:00 +0000

Equipo de Arquitectura was founded by Horacio Cherniavsky and Viviana Pozzoli in 2017. From Paraguay, their works such as Earth Box or Intermediate House translate the vision of an architecture that deals with the primitive and essential. One that constantly seeks to integrate the existing natural environment with the artifice, the built. In particular, bringing material sincerity as a design ethic.

Installations on Show: 15 Examples of Applications in Interior Spaces of Homes

Agustina Iñiguez — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Pipes, wiring and ducts of different materials in walls, ceilings and roofs make up all the spaces we walk through and inhabit. They represent the set of networks and equipment necessary for the development of life in our buildings, providing services such as water, electricity or gas, among many others. According to the regulations in each country and the use defined in each space, the installations can be left visible, giving a certain character and aesthetic to interior spaces.

Alas Paraguayas House / OMCM arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 07:00:00 +0000

The intervention is located in the residential neighborhood of Los Laureles de Asunción, on a recently paved street that has begun to have more and more disturbing vehicular traffic. The initial commission: a quick and routine repair that would consist of laying one or two walls, fixing the bathrooms, and general painting.

ArchDaily Selects the Best New Practices of 2021

David Basulto — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 08:30:00 +0000

As our world evolves at an unprecedented pace, the challenges that come with it are becoming more and more complex. The questions faced by the cities and networks of our global world, the physical and virtual environments where our evolution takes place, are making architecture more relevant than ever.

El Caparazón House & Workshop / Grupo Culata Jovái + Tekoha Arquitectos + uno3arq

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:02:00 +0000

Understanding our work as a service is difficult when the intention to build goes beyond the Vitruvian triad, and when it is indifferent to the market. When a project is conceived in terms of dreams, desires, sensations, and magic, the architectural response turns more towards the materialization of spatial ideas than towards a real estate service.

VU4B House / TDA

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 01:00:00 +0000

“I believe that one cannot achieve a clear expression of our time but is capable of using clear constructive discipline. I am convinced that architecture cannot be anything other than the expression of civilization. The expression of the essence of that civilization. I usually compare architecture with language. To truly master a language, one must master its grammar. Then one could express oneself clearly. One could say very normal things in a language, one can state very logical things, and if one is a poet, one can even express artistic things in a language. And I believe that exactly the same thing happens in architecture.” Excerpt from the documentary MIES.

Three³ House / Meraki Arquitectura + Diseño

Agustina Coulleri — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 11:00:00 +0000

The name of the house responds to its modulation: three modules wide, three modules long and three modules tall. On the lateral space of the second middle volume, a garden takes center stage throughout the three floors of the house, showering the spaces with natural light. A perforated brick wall creates a show of lights and shadows on the boundary on the side. The connecting bridges on the top floor, same as the one that goes through the interior garden in the access, create a circulation meant for enjoying the greenery and natural light captured in the interior spaces.

Earth Box / Equipo de Arquitectura

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 07:00:00 +0000

“The sun did not know how great it was until it hit the side of a building”. – Louis Kahn

Meet the Winners of the 2020 Panamerican Architecture Biennial of Quito

Fabian Dejtiar — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 05:00:00 +0000

On November 20, the 2020 Panamerican Architecture Biennial of Quito (BAQ 2020) announced the winners of the present edition. Every other year, the BAQ "invites to discuss contemporary production of the built environment, aiming to improve the practice of our profession" in the Americas.

ASA Steam School / Equipo de Arquitectura

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:00:00 +0000

“I got an order from the school board that said ‘We have a great idea. We should not put windows in the school because children need wall space for their paintings, and also windows can distract from the teacher’. Now, what teacher deserves that much attention? After all, the birds outside, the person scurrying for shelter in the rain, the leaves falling from the trees, the clouds passing by, the sun penetrating: these are all great things. They are lessons in themselves.” – Louis Kahn

Stone House / Meraki Arquitectura + Diseño

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 16:00:00 +0000

On a lot with lush vegetation and a dry and sandy environment, the house seeks a balance between privacy and a relationship with the exterior space. Persistent and easy-maintenance materials are used from the start, understanding the environment and the user's requirements.

Designing in Tight Spaces: Examples from Latin America

Belén Maiztegui — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 11:00:00 +0000

In densely-populated cities, where construction projects tend to require party walls, the close proximity of other buildings complicate even further the process of creating spaces that incorporate elements like natural light and cross-ventilation. But this of course is not the only challenge: the ever-changing and multiplying nature of cities has given rise to atypical lots--properties that have been created by subdividing large swathes of urban land. In general, the reduced dimensions force developers to look for ways to maximize the limited space available to them.

Peak House / OMCM arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 03:00:00 +0000

Between the stones and the water. A lot located in the mountain range of Los Altos, treading geographically within the city of San Bernardino, with romantic sunset views over the famous Ypacaraí lake, which has become the historical scene of the summer life of many Paraguayans, is the site where we were summoned to project a weekend house to be enjoyed by families and friends. With a rugged topography and rocky terrain, the picturesque and steep location suggested the idea of implementing the program in such a way to generate a stepped succession of terraces that allow users to enjoy the landscape from different perspectives and times of the day.

Fuelle Roga House / OMCM arquitectos

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 06:00:00 +0000

This small project is located in a residential neighbourhood in Asunción of low density and relative tranquillity, where the owner commissioned us to renovate an old house of almost vernacular characteristics and in quite deteriorated conditions, for profitable purposes. Therefore, our efforts were focused on developing a discreet project that would find a way to recycle the house, allowing it some flexibility in the spaces while fitting into a somewhat tight budget. The initial situation presented us with an unfunctional fragmented typology of clogged and annexed spaces, a lack of ventilation and natural lighting, walls without foundations and with noticeable humidity, considerable structural fissures and other anecdotal surprises, such as the presence of a cesspit in one of the rooms.

Ñasaindy House / ArquitecTava

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 06:00:00 +0000

A construction made mostly with local resources in a reforestation land, a corner at the suburban area in Obligado city, with one of its sides on a vehicular street and another one on a projected street that works as a pedestrian cross zone next to a lagoon that reflects the landscape, where the house is located as a horizontal contrast to the vertical trees that fade the sunlight, and reveal the coming wind.

Hornero Roga House / OMCM arquitectos

Andreas Luco — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 07:00:00 +0000

The neighbourhoods of the Asinción of yesteryear, traditional and almost timeless, are being reached by the impulse of real estate development that day after day seeks to provide options to the growing urban population. Many times it happens that the hurried venture condemns architecture to a second -or third-level of importance, giving priority to "practicality" and prejudices of insecurity that are very common in the country, which does not serve the imaginary of today's society well. We wanted this not to be the case. The situation presented a house of approximately 40 years of age and in quite deteriorated conditions that was to be reincorporated to the supply of real estate. It was already in the process of demolition, with no architectural project to follow. The urgency of time led us to make a quick diagnosis of the situation and to act with the same inertia, while developing a parallel idea that could mean - at least something - for the city.