Estar House

Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani

ESTAR HOUSE

Rec Arquitectura

ARCHITECTS
Rec Arquitectura

PHOTOGRAPHS
Yoshihiro Koitani

YEAR
2012

LOCATION
Mexico

CATEGORY
Houses

Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani

Text description provided by architect.

What else should we as architects propose for a "home" beyond a functional, modular design, or with few structural materials exposed, among other things? ...

Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani

This project sought to respond responsibly to the family with a passive system that saves more than 85% energy, and above all ... an inner life for landscape, with mobile spaces that in the future will be able to readapt their needs.

The house uses an L-shaped concrete wall that beyond working as a load-bearing wall, contains thermal inertia capabilities, storing and dissipating heat when it is needed by way of a heatsink in electronics, as the area where it is located tends to be cool-temperate.

Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani

Like the furniture in a house that allows the user to change the space, we design a double-height space between the dining and living room, currently used as a courtyard.

This area of ​​the house is ready for the addition of the pool, it will supply a covered space for it and at the same time it will create a new terrace upstairs, limiting heat loss.

Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani

Besides architecture, we think it is important to share stories like: the taste for painting the house brought upon one of its inhabitants, or simply the gas supplier's comment surprised because he thought that as he was not supplying the house with the same frequency as the rest of neighbors, he assumed the house was being supplied by another company ...

as architects we consider it worthwhile to think of the house more like a home, than as mere architectural descriptions.

Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani


Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani


Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani


Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani
Estar House
© Yoshihiro Koitani


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