La casa de los mil y un cuentos
An architecture that invites us to understand the tectonics as identity and the habitat as a resource, which function as a story, capable of provoking suspense, laughter, excitement, links, surprises or reflection, to help us to understand our intention that all this clear and defined; and we can accept that we are going to find us with a universe of possibilities and confusion of interpretation.
• Architects: Natura Futura Arquitectura
• Ubication: Montalvo, Ecuador
• Arquitect in chargue: José Fernando Gómez M
• Construction area: 240 m2
• Contribuitors: Fausto Quiroz, Wilma Enríquez.
• Year project: 2015
• Photographs: Juan Carlos Donoso
• Contact: www.naturafuturarq.com
Once upon a time in a small town called Montalvo, which had 24,000 inhabitants, 20 minutes from Babahoyo capital city of the province of Los Rios, in the coastal region of a faraway country called Ecuador. This town was a climate of about 25 °C with high average annual rainfall in the winter.
One day a young entrepreneurial family decided to build a house in the center of the town. It was there that appeared the principle of duality. (The duality was always in all places (polished/rustic, empty/full, fiction/reality, silence/noise, lightness/ weight, light/shadow) The ground floor was materialized with exposed brick, taking as a metaphor the rustic with the dynamic of the activities of the day; on the top floor, the envelope of hue with white joined the passive of the rest in the night, finding a balance between tectonics and the hábitat
During the process of design and construction, had as its main objective, minimal changes in the search for minimizing the costs, handling of materials and qualify the various spaces, is taken advantage of the views and desolations responding to their environment, they made the construction hand-crafted in situ, using the technique and local labor.
Each one creates its truth on the house, baptizes it, puts a name, puts its mark on the attempt to create and account of its history, or create your own story still in it…
