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CASA HORIZONTE
CASA HORIZONTE
Manabí, Ecuador
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CASA HORIZONTE
Manabí, Ecuador
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2023
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
Casa Horizonte begins with a simple question: how can a house belong to a landscape without imitating it or competing with it?
The project does not attempt to disappear into the site. Instead, it accepts its condition as an artifact and establishes a quiet dialogue with the horizon. The architecture is defined by gravity and by the weight of matter, and by the slow construction of space through sequential thresholds. The inhabitant does not arrive at the ocean immediately. The sea is gradually revealed through compression and release, shadow and light, interior and exterior.
Material becomes the main architectural language. The house is built almost entirely in exposed concrete, not treated as a smooth or abstract surface but as a record of its own making. Wooden formwork boards leave their grain, joints, and imperfections printed onto walls, ceilings, and floors. These marks are not concealed. They are the project itself. The architecture is therefore not only designed, it is crafted.
The construction process involved carpenters and masons working through careful and repetitive manual assembly. Each board placement and each alignment determined the final appearance of the building. The texture is not decorative. It is evidence of human labor. The house reveals how it was built and acknowledges the hands that shaped it.
In a coastal environment where materials are constantly transformed by humidity, salt and wind, permanence is not pursued as perfection but as endurance. The concrete is allowed to age, stain and change over time. Weathering becomes part of the architecture rather than its deterioration.
Casa Horizonte rejects the image of the pristine modern object. It proposes a quiet and tactile architecture, heavy yet calm, simple yet precise. The horizon becomes the only ornament, and inhabiting becomes a gradual awareness of light, air and time.
The project ultimately understands architecture not as an isolated object, but as a constructed atmosphere in which material, craftsmanship and landscape coexist without hierarchy.
Architectural Design: Javier Gallardo Salgado
The project does not attempt to disappear into the site. Instead, it accepts its condition as an artifact and establishes a quiet dialogue with the horizon. The architecture is defined by gravity and by the weight of matter, and by the slow construction of space through sequential thresholds. The inhabitant does not arrive at the ocean immediately. The sea is gradually revealed through compression and release, shadow and light, interior and exterior.
Material becomes the main architectural language. The house is built almost entirely in exposed concrete, not treated as a smooth or abstract surface but as a record of its own making. Wooden formwork boards leave their grain, joints, and imperfections printed onto walls, ceilings, and floors. These marks are not concealed. They are the project itself. The architecture is therefore not only designed, it is crafted.
The construction process involved carpenters and masons working through careful and repetitive manual assembly. Each board placement and each alignment determined the final appearance of the building. The texture is not decorative. It is evidence of human labor. The house reveals how it was built and acknowledges the hands that shaped it.
In a coastal environment where materials are constantly transformed by humidity, salt and wind, permanence is not pursued as perfection but as endurance. The concrete is allowed to age, stain and change over time. Weathering becomes part of the architecture rather than its deterioration.
Casa Horizonte rejects the image of the pristine modern object. It proposes a quiet and tactile architecture, heavy yet calm, simple yet precise. The horizon becomes the only ornament, and inhabiting becomes a gradual awareness of light, air and time.
The project ultimately understands architecture not as an isolated object, but as a constructed atmosphere in which material, craftsmanship and landscape coexist without hierarchy.
Architectural Design: Javier Gallardo Salgado
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