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Quito Trees House : Casa Arboles

Contemporary Building in Ecuador, South America design by Arquitectura X

17 Apr 2008

Location: Quito, Ecuador

Date built: 2005

Design: Arquitectura X

Photos by Sebastián Crespo

House in a tree garden

Designed for a young couple with three small children, the house is located within a tree garden full of a diversity of local species of considering age and size distributed over a very generous area; the site was cared for by the couple for several years before deciding to build.

The most important requirements were that the house be set among these trees and that a small pre-existent construction at the edge of the lot be maintained.

Taking advantage of a prolonged design process, the scheme was abbreviated to two white planes that fold and wind over the slightly sloping site, one shapes the floor plane, and the other, the roof plane and walls that limit the spaces according to their position among the trees, orientation toward the sun, or in relation to other interior spaces. Service, garage and bathroom volumes are inserted or separated from the white planes and differ in material and colour.

Architects: arquitectura x – Adrian Moreno Núñez, María Samaniego Ponce
Structural Design: Diego Robalino
Project: 2002-04
Construction: 2005

Photographs: Sebastián Crespo

House in a tree garden, Quito images / information from Arquitectura X

Location: Quito, Ecuador, South America

Ecuador Houses

Ecuador Architectural Designs – selection below:

Magnolia House, Arrayanas
Architecture: Estudio Felipe Escudero

photos : Haley Lee & Saul Endara
New House in Arrayanas
Modernism famous motto “a house is a machine for living in” takes on different meanings as we move from the machine age into the digital one. What makes a house special is that you are designing a specific lifestyle for a specific person in a specific time and place.

House AO, Otavalo
Architecture: Studio Alfa

photograph : Bicubik
House AO in Otavalo
This modern Otavalo property is located within a context where landscape is one of the core conditioning factors for its design. The client requested that the main spaces take part of the best views; the architectonic response was to propose spatiality where the user, the architecture, and the setting would dialogue.

Plus House

Quito House 3

Quito Observatory House

Triangular House

Ecuador Architecture

Architecture in the country:

EPN University Library, Quito
Design: Ordonez Arquitectos

visualization : SOMA studio
EPN University Library
The building stands out through the precise use of geometry, expressing an exo-structure formed by a diamond pattern in the skin. Sequential double-height spaces of the reading areas flow along a strip of glass expressed on the pattern.