A House in the Andes by odd+ architects
A House in the Andes is a contemporary three-story brick residence located in Ecuador, designed in 2020 by odd+ architects.
Description
Reinterpreting Andean vernacular architecture for contemporary living, A House in the Andes celebrates journey and discovery through a seamless integration of landscape and built form. The three levels of the residence rise in the form of a solid earth monolith from a designed landscape of mounds. Carving access areas through the mounds exposes rammed earth walls, mimicking the ancestral ?Chaquiñán? ? a system of trails used by the ancient Andeans to travel through the extensive rugged Andean geography. These angular creases cut through the terrain to create a hollowed and flexible semi-underground space that evokes a sense of astonishment and awe often present when walking within unearthed ruins. The façade? a composition of adobe bricks, generates a play of textures, shades and shadows when light hits at different times of day. In daylight, the shadows change with the movement of the sun; in the afternoon, the sun penetrates the perforated façade; at night, the interior lighting illuminates the façade into ephemerality and lightness, akin to a floating lamp.
A single brick module was designed for this project? a form that generates the most variation and dynamism in the façade.
Born out of extensive research, the use of adobe bricks is a homage to the rich diversity of geological rock formations in Ecuador. E...
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