Mainumby House
A house built in Asunción in the 1960s must adapt to a new context. A growth, in the embrace of mom and mama (grandmother), necessary to obtain autonomy within the family home.
An assignment that leads us to think about the life lived in Asunción.
We imagine this city as a rough and rough sea, hard to navigate. The hostility of the urban environment forces the city to be built on the small islands that make up the archipelago of urban life in Asunción. The fragmented reality, which within it remembers the earth without evil; Asunción is experienced introspectively in the sum of these refuges.
Could the richness of internalized life eventually influence the construction of the city? Although distant, we decided to believe so.
Grow up.
Where it is increasingly difficult to access one's own home, a second level on the existing home, a simple and very traditional operation, acts as an alternative densification.
The typical pre-existing form adapts and changes functions, the same materials and construction systems are reused. The existing roof changes its layout and its structure supports the new level; The bricks are recovered and become part of the walls again.
The outer skin, a metal and plant structure with bioclimatic conditioning, in addition to providing privacy, attracts and generates new life. The hummingbirds that now visit the new upper floor, Mainumby in the native language, give the place its name.
