Horizontal house

Located in Zambiza, a rural parish located north-east of the city of Quito, the work is implanted on a rectangular terrain of 11m wide by 42m long, which, the tectonic character of the house, Stresses the relationship with the landscape and the place. As the first design operation, the flat horizontal plane is established as a predominant element on the natural inclined plane (customer requirement), which generates an intention to fly towards the horizon, as if it were a spring. These design intentions are referred to conceptual systems, in this case, a search of contrast and spatial balance that manifests between the functional and artistic, between order and expression, between heavy and light, opaque and transparent, Thus producing c... More