Single family house located in Perucho, rural town in the Metropolitan District of Quito. It seeks to be a refuge from urban life that allows its owner to relate with nature by being located in a rural environment surrounded by mountains and vegetation.

The design focused on enhancing the visual connection with nature and on achieving a sense of tranquility and shelter inside the house. We propose to take advantage of the views of the mountains through large windows on the west façade, and to ensure privacy from the neighbors and passers-by on the street adjoining the plot by a continuous skin of bricks that begin as the south façade, transforms into the roof and ends up as the north façade of the project.

The distribution of the ground floor is meant for public spaces with a kitchen, living room, dining room, bathroom and a covered outdoor deck and the upper floor reserved for private spaces with bedroom, work space, visitor space and bathroom.
A simple and workshop prefabricated structure made of solid wood frames, which allows efficient assembly and minimizes the impacts on the natural environment and the costs of mobilization and manufacture on site.

Team:

Architectural office: El Sindicato Arquitectura + Pedro Calle

Architects: Pedro Calle - Nicolás Viteri – María Mercedes Reinoso – Xavier Duque

Photographer: Andrés Villota
Illustration: El Sindicato Arquitectura, Pablo Hidalgo, Laura Vaca.