Excerpt: Stilts House, designed by Natura Futura Arquitectura, re-appropriates the idea of traditional and flexible as a way of dwelling in the city. The architectural program of the project is suggested with the material, highlighted with different brick implementation logics to provide privacy and permeability. It is presented in an elevated horizontal plane; lightened by a system of teak pillars that supports the support of the walls and roof, leaving it bare on the volume of “private.”
Project Description
[Text as submitted by Architect] An architecture that re-appropriates the idea of traditional and flexible as a way of dwelling in the city.
The project had to capture the essence of the environment, the lifestyle of the occupant, free and open to new experiences shared with a multifunctional space.
Stilts House, located in Villamil, Guayas province, Ecuador, a satellite city of Guayaquil with a population of 33,560 inhabitants, where at the time of the colony it was a fishing port based on ancient indigenous populations, maintaining the tradition today, in 1982 UNESCO declared General Villamil beaches the second best climate in the world after a mountainous place in Australia, it is also known for its great work of local artisan labor.’
It is proposed in its envelope this composed with fired bricks that are also a traditional material in the local area, with one of the main objectives, not to use glass in its windows, incorporating traditional elements such as chazas, where it allows ventilation and shade that are necessary for the tropical climate of the place.
It is presented in an elevated horizontal plane; lightened by a system of teak pillars that supports the support of the walls and roof, leaving it bare on the volume of “private” Aiming to develop, through an architecture typical of the tropics, a proposal that meets the needs the client’s; On the ground floor, and integrated with the exterior and its daily activities, there is a social area that closes in on itself, and opens towards the lower interior of the house as a rest area with hammocks. In this way, micro-climates are generated through the material and its new functions.
The architectural program of the project is suggested with the material, highlighted with different brick implementation logics to provide privacy and permeability.
Define an urban housing response that through different strategies such as the application of sustainable design principles, continue in the process of searching for ways to question the possibility of having a city solution closer to reality, our traditions and the Resource Optimization.
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