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El Refugio
El Refugio
Tutupali, Ecuador
Project Featured on Jun 25, 2025
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El Refugio
Tutupali, Ecuador
Project Featured on Jun 25, 2025
Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2023
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
$50K - 100K
El Refugio, located on the Southern countryside from Cuenca, Ecuador, is a rest space in connection with the nature. The project, located in a farm, generates a personal space for a reduced family group.
The approach to the site starts from a second order road, from which a first perspective is generated that highlights topography and the impressive endemic forest. The project doesn’t look forward to challenging the landscape, rather to be part of it through its materiality and volumetric proposal.
The constructive system, based on the vernacular architecture, besides being a link between the morphological contemporaneity of the project with the majesty of the landscape, proofs its appropriateness. The local stone walls, the artisanal bricks on the floors and the roof made with wooden structure, reed cane and clay roof tiles give thermal balance to the shelter that mitigate the climatology conditions of the zone.
The program, developed in 175m2, its organized in two basic volumes. The first block hosts the social area, including a porch as a transition element between the nature and the house. The second element, located in the back zone for privacy reasons, contains the restroom.
The division between volumes, generates a third zone that constitutes the heart of the project, the kitchen and the barbecue. This space brings back the primitive hut concept, where the fire is the center of social activities.
The approach to the site starts from a second order road, from which a first perspective is generated that highlights topography and the impressive endemic forest. The project doesn’t look forward to challenging the landscape, rather to be part of it through its materiality and volumetric proposal.
The constructive system, based on the vernacular architecture, besides being a link between the morphological contemporaneity of the project with the majesty of the landscape, proofs its appropriateness. The local stone walls, the artisanal bricks on the floors and the roof made with wooden structure, reed cane and clay roof tiles give thermal balance to the shelter that mitigate the climatology conditions of the zone.
The program, developed in 175m2, its organized in two basic volumes. The first block hosts the social area, including a porch as a transition element between the nature and the house. The second element, located in the back zone for privacy reasons, contains the restroom.
The division between volumes, generates a third zone that constitutes the heart of the project, the kitchen and the barbecue. This space brings back the primitive hut concept, where the fire is the center of social activities.
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