IL Narrow Building - Edificio Angosto IL

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Can one design a housing building in a lot barely 7.5m wide? Can it be done?. This was the challenge for this commission.

The father had a lot with an incredible panoramic view towards the sea in the Miraflores District in Lima, Peru, and he wanted to design a building for him and his 03 kids (04 apartments).

The challenge started by trying to make a livable apartment unit within that extremely narrow space. In order to make it, the units had to become duplexes since part of the idea was for the apartments to have 03 bedrooms each.

The massing and form for this design started form a grid that followed the functionality of the apartments to make way for a very dynamic façade. The massing was enhanced by the linearity of 03 structural walls that became the datum for the project.

Sadly the owner finally sold the lot and this design never became built.

Condominium Housing Building - Edificio de Vivienda Condominio

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Playing around with the Lazo shapes and structures, I pursued the idea of using a lazo structure as a base structure of a bigger system... How big? well..as big as you can get in architecture..housing buildings and maybe even high rise housing buildings.

The Lazo structure is used as a structural sustain for the housing units. The housing units are duplexes that are arranged like a Ying-Yang System.

Minimal House - Casa Mínima

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This excersise focused on creating a very small living unit using modern design concepts and materials. This excersise is part of the Cube series (more on future posts) so it had to be housed inside a cube like structure.

The house has a parking space (for a car, bikes or a boat), on the first floor. The second floor has the social area and has a balcony, a living room and an open kitchen with a bar. The third floor has the provate areas so it has 1 bedroom and a full bathroom that can also be used for guests.

This house is a consmopolitan modern loft that can even be movable and transportable.



Seventh day Adventist Church Temple for the UPEU - Templo para la iglesia Adventistas de la UPEU

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Firstly i have to state that I am not an Adventist, I was invited, as an Architect, to participate in a closed private competition for the design of their main temple in Lima, Peru inside the campus of the Adventist University UPEU (Universidad Peruana Union.

Since last post it seemed like a good idea to keep the church theme (I've designed a few). This project was co-designed with my friend and colleague Jesus Jauregui and was presented through his firm Instametal.

The church required us to do extensive research on Adventist ways and ceremonies and required to fulfill an huge program requiring classrooms to prepare the believers for the second coming of Jesus Christ.

The lot was uphill and the sequence of spaces is akin to the sequence of ceremonies the Adventists participate in.

The concept started as a giant slab that bends in itself creating the closure for the shape of the church. In a was this was viewed as a "hug" in the same way the church welcomes their believers.

Here you can fin the panels the project was presented in (in Spanish)