Ecuadorian architect Juan Alberto Andrade has accomplished an extension to a multifamily housing complicated with rammed earth partitions in Guayaquil.
Often called El Retiro, the nine-square metre (97-square foot) addition doubles the frequent house of a 305-square metre (3,282-square foot) residential complicated, protruding into the entrance setback alongside the road and blurring the road between the non-public housing and concrete realm.
Following Mexica architect Lucía Martín López’s thought of “the rising home,” Juan Alberto Andrade utilised a method for adapting housing López calls “crystallographic progress”: intervening inside the limits of the property and following the realm and top limits of the neighbourhood.
“Structure is a response to the continual want for the reinvention of a habitat,” the group informed Dezeen. “Housing is an exercise, a constructed course of.”
Accomplished in 2022, the easy sq. addition consists of a load-bearing, 30-centimetre-thick rammed earth wall – set on prime of a limestone rock base – and bahareque masonry, which is a mixture of a bamboo body and clay plaster.
Regardless of being a special color than the present construction, the form and materiality of the addition works to mix it with the home and the neighbourhood, as does the leafy landscaping alongside the road.
A light-weight pine roof construction slopes from the present exterior wall to the sting of the addition and is topped by a inexperienced steel roof.
Inside, the resin flooring serves as a clean distinction to the uncooked wood ceiling and built-in millwork.
A sliding iron door opens to the compact inside, which homes a social house, library, and storage alongside the road and steps as much as a standard workspace inside the present flooring plan.
A freestanding steel core was inserted into the centre of the plan, becoming a member of the addition to the present room with a kitchenette and loo.
A small planted atrium permits a 25-year-old tree to rise within the centre of the plan and light-weight to filter into the constructing.
A sq. wood window – protected by sliding steel shutters – appears throughout the road to a neighborhood park. The pivoting window body will be opened and the deep structural wall turns into a secondary desk house.
“El Retiro is a undertaking of extension and attachment from an unbiased physique to a multifamily housing, that serves and transforms preexistence right into a productive habitat,” the group stated.
It was a chance to “construct particular, viable and productive options that attend the progressive progress of housing, and to make the most of the residual areas generated by Ecuador’s insurance policies”.
Maximizing small areas is a pillar of Andrade’s apply. He beforehand designed a versatile set up for a micro condo in Quito and transformed a 1993 Chevy van right into a plywood “house-on-wheels” with María José Váscones.
The images is by JAG Studio.
Challenge credit:
Architect: Juan Alberto Andrade
Staff: Cuqui Rodríguez, María José Váscones, Melissa Toasa, Victoria Peralta, Duda Rodriguez
Suppliers: Baldosas del Ecuador, Acesco, Megakywi
