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Archipelago House
Archipelago House
Vichayito, Peru
Project of the Day on Apr 25, 2014
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Archipelago House
Vichayito, Peru
Project of the Day on Apr 25, 2014
Archipelago House explores a fragmented architecture that uses its type at a domestic scale, breaking up the program while promoting interaction in interstitial spaces. Located north of Peru, in Piura, Vichayito, the house is situated away from the shore with beautiful views of the dunes and the Peruvian desert.
Different pieces have been assembled that can accommodate many uses and users. This assembly rethinks the relationship between the volumes and between exterior and interior spaces. Its isolated condition ignores fronts and sides, and is to be explored from all sides so as to perceive the environment in multiple ways.
Although it is located on a trapezoidal site, the assembly is oblivious to the perimeter, creating and implementing its own order on the ground. Each volume has a specific function and specific spatial conditions, and so the living room, master bedroom, secondary bedrooms, and service volume are set apart to create tension between them, creating informal spaces to meet and carry out various activities. Thus appear the indeterminate uses between buildings.
The steep slope on the north-south axis is intervened with a podium that seeks to dilate limits and contain the space. As in the works of Mies van der Rohe, this podium allows us to transform the land into a clear boundary of the pieces it contains. These appear like members of undifferentiated bodies, and acquire the logic of an archipelago: a group of islands in a sea that separates and joins them at the same time.
The access is made up from the tension between abstract prisms. The main bedroom is a 20-foot cube, independent and altered by its spatial requirements and views. The interior is austere, with pine wood used in a rustic state. Different views are part of the interior experience, looking to dilate it to new limits. The exterior floor becomes a continuous material, a rug that slips through the podium, framing the little vegetation of the Peruvian desert.
The main hall is designed using a horizontal, open, and transparent volume. A unique roof of a single level generates the necessary shade to house the various social activities. The subsequent bedroom volumes are taller to take advantage of distant views. The podium appears as a unifying element for the volumes, but differentiates from the environment. The residual spaces, contained by groups of volumes, blur the boundary between self and other, linking the horizon.
Finally, the project responds to the pursuit of an architecture conscious of its past and liberated from its limits, that intends to be abstract, transparent, fluid, and open.
Different pieces have been assembled that can accommodate many uses and users. This assembly rethinks the relationship between the volumes and between exterior and interior spaces. Its isolated condition ignores fronts and sides, and is to be explored from all sides so as to perceive the environment in multiple ways.
Although it is located on a trapezoidal site, the assembly is oblivious to the perimeter, creating and implementing its own order on the ground. Each volume has a specific function and specific spatial conditions, and so the living room, master bedroom, secondary bedrooms, and service volume are set apart to create tension between them, creating informal spaces to meet and carry out various activities. Thus appear the indeterminate uses between buildings.
The steep slope on the north-south axis is intervened with a podium that seeks to dilate limits and contain the space. As in the works of Mies van der Rohe, this podium allows us to transform the land into a clear boundary of the pieces it contains. These appear like members of undifferentiated bodies, and acquire the logic of an archipelago: a group of islands in a sea that separates and joins them at the same time.
The access is made up from the tension between abstract prisms. The main bedroom is a 20-foot cube, independent and altered by its spatial requirements and views. The interior is austere, with pine wood used in a rustic state. Different views are part of the interior experience, looking to dilate it to new limits. The exterior floor becomes a continuous material, a rug that slips through the podium, framing the little vegetation of the Peruvian desert.
The main hall is designed using a horizontal, open, and transparent volume. A unique roof of a single level generates the necessary shade to house the various social activities. The subsequent bedroom volumes are taller to take advantage of distant views. The podium appears as a unifying element for the volumes, but differentiates from the environment. The residual spaces, contained by groups of volumes, blur the boundary between self and other, linking the horizon.
Finally, the project responds to the pursuit of an architecture conscious of its past and liberated from its limits, that intends to be abstract, transparent, fluid, and open.
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