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Architects: Metropolis
- Area: 330 m²
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Casuarinas’ House / Metropolis
A House Forever / Longhi Architects
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Architects: Longhi Architects
- Area: 550 m²
- Year: 2013
VIDEO: 40 Years On, The Lessons of PREVI
The students of the MSArch in Landscape and Urbanism program at Woodbury University in San Diego have shared this video on Proyecto Experimental de Vivienda (PREVI): a late 1960s social housing experiment in Lima, Peru, which, backed by the Peruvian government and the UN, involved the best social housing architects of the day.
The designs, part of the later, more humanist strain of modernism, were intended to allow families - who were used to holding complete control over the construction of their own homes - to appropriate the houses. However, they were also designed to imply how future construction might prevent the proliferation of chaos present in previous slums. The video asks how residents feel about their experimental homes today, questioning the success of this design strategy, 40 years after the project's completion.
Find out more about the outcome of the PREVI experiment, after the break...
Billboard in Lima Harvests Drinking Water Out of Thin Air
According to the UN, about 60% of the world's population will be living in cities within the next 8 years - a human migration that adds more and more strain on cities' sanitation and resources. One of these many urban centers is Lima, Peru, the second largest desert capital in the world that receives less than 2 inches of rain a year. Despite its nearly nonexistent rainfall, Peru has some of the highest atmospheric humidity anywhere - 98%.
The University of Engineering and Technology of Peru (UTEC) and an ad agency called Mayo DraftFCBand saw great opportunity in this invisible source of water and created a billboard that can capture this humidity and turn it into potable drinking water for nearby residents.
Malecon Castilla House / David Mutal Arquitectos
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Architects: David Mutal Arquitectos
- Area: 345 m²
- Year: 2011
Multipurpose Room for Pius XII Private School / Laboratorio Urbano de Lima + Carmen Rivas Lombardi
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Architects: Carmen Rivas Lombardi, Laboratorio Urbano de Lima: Laboratorio Urbano de Lima – Pablo Díaz Mora + Carmen Rivas Lombardi
- Year: 2010
Hotel + Congress Center Proposal / OOIIO
OOIIO Architecture shared with us 'Unbalance Hotel', their latest project for a landmark hotel and congress building in Lima, Perú. Located in a city which is currently enjoying a constant growth, the interesting topography is what the architects decided to take advantage of to start the hotel design. The outstanding building silhouette immediately grabs pedestrian’s attention and it becomes an actual landmark for the more than 8 million inhabitants of Lima, and the whole country of Peru. More images and architects' description after the break.
J4 Houses / Vertice Arquitectos
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Architects: Vertice Arquitectos
- Area: 279 m²
Casa Seta / Martín Dulanto
Deployed House / Seinfeld Arquitectos
- Area: 495 m²
B+U's Housing Tower Rethinks Window DNA
Los Angeles based B+U Architects, a design office recognized internationally for its digital techniques and use of new technologies and material resources, is once again pushing the boundaries of architecture and urban design with its Animated Apertures Housing Tower project in Lima, Peru. The conceptual framework for the design arose from a "clear interest in emphasizing an architecture that can exist between nature and technology," inspired by natural patterns, movements and colors with the overarching goal of creating an "interactive and intelligent building organism". According to the architects, its design aesthetic embraces incongruence, disruption and deformation rather than homogeneity and parametric smoothness - a common solution in many digital designs that the firm wished to avoid.
More after the break...
"Universidad del Pacifico" Branch Office / Metropolis
Architects: Metropolis Location: Lima, Peru Project Year: 2012 Project Area: 17,000 sqm Photographs: Juan Solano
Pescados Capitales Restaurant / GonzalezMoix
Architects: GonzalezMoix arquitectura Location: San Borja, Lima, Perú Architect : Óscar González Moix Project Year: 2012 Project Area: 763.2 sqm Photographs: Juan Solano
Viewpoint House
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Architects: 2.8x arquitectos
- Area: 800 m²
- Year: 2011
Las Palmeras Beach House / RRMR Arquitectos
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Architects: RRMR Arquitectos
- Area: 200 m²
- Year: 2011
House in Las Arenas / Javier Artadi
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Architects: Javier Artadi: Ing. Jorge Indacochea (Structure), Ing. Roberto Mayorga (Electrics), Ing. Angel Dall´Orto (Plumbing)
- Area: 238 m²