Paraguay architecture
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Project • By Meraki Arquitectura + Diseño • Private Houses
TWIN HOUSES: ITA ARI + ITA KUA
In the city of San Bernardino, within a residential development set on a hillside overlooking Lake Ypacaraí, this project consists of two twin houses designed to engage directly with the landscape.
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The houses are named Ita Ari and Ita Kua, words from the Guaraní language that loosely translate to “above the stone” and “within/under the stone.” The names reflect the way the two volumes relate to the terrain and to the exposed rock of the site.
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The site has a pronounced slope, with a height difference of 15 meters between its lowest and highest points. This condition became the starting point of the design. Both houses, with square floor plans, are posi... More
FIVE NORTE
The west and a single material, brick forming folds together, in response to the incidence of the Sun.
Leonardo Méndez
Without “doors” or “windows” as an expression of sobriety and introspection, detached from the ground so as not to interrupt the creeping vegetation.
Leonardo Méndez
Leonardo Méndez
With these premises, progress was made to refunctionalize and adapt a pre-existing work to office use. The living and dynamic element of architecture, natural light, penetrates all the spaces of the project, drawing a matrix, a projection of summoned brick that runs through floors and walls.
Leonardo Méndez
Leonardo Méndez
Since we are not able to display the... More
News • News • 29 Aug 2021
Child Care Center by Equipo de Arquitectura develops courtyard typology into a sensitive, introspective space for early childhood learning
The Child Care Center in Villeta, Paraguay by Equipo de Arquitectura is an introspective, inward-looking construction and an incubator of the very life that takes place there. On the outside, earth volumes hide and protect the interior. On the inside, quite the opposite occurs.
Federico Cairoli
The Center comprises 4 larges spaces: two classrooms, which are further subdivided into two classrooms each, a dining room and an administrative area. Each space opens directly to a central open courtyard, visually communicate with the environment, eliminating the concept of the classroom as a closed space.
Federico Cairoli
This central courtyard, which functions as the children's play area, is a focal point of the ensemble. It is a meeti... More