Guillermo Fischer

Villa de Leyva House

Villa de Leyva House
Courtesy of Guillermo Fischer

VILLA DE LEYVA HOUSE

Guillermo Fischer

ARCHITECTS
Guillermo Fischer

AREA
380.0 m2

YEAR
2009

LOCATION
Colombia

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

A house of rest for an artist and his family, a patio house, with a square plan, a regular object in a natural environment, on a terrain with a slight slope, near the long mountain in which is embedded the sacred lagoon of Iguaque.

Villa de Leyva House
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Villa de Leyva House
Courtesy of Guillermo Fischer

This location generates the idea of ​​the main visual orientation of the house: The volcanic cone where the lagoon is.

The municipality demands in a subjective way that for the new constructions in the region the "colonial style" must be used.

And that implies white walls, carpentries in wood, roofs covered in clay tiles, and eaves of 60cm. Paradoxically the regulations do not mention the courtyards.

Villa de Leyva House
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Villa de Leyva House
Courtesy of Guillermo Fischer
Villa de Leyva House
Courtesy of Guillermo Fischer

While the exterior of the house maintains the hardness of the thick white walls of the houses of the region, the interior contrasts with the fluidity of the organized spaces around the two patios (that are visually directed to the lagoon), which are faithful to aspects of the Andalusian architectural culture inherited, such as water, orange trees, round stones.

If the dining room, central space of the house, is a transparent space, it produces an unlimited uncontrolled directional flow, it is necessary that this directionality is cut by a wall on the back courtyard.

Villa de Leyva House
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Villa de Leyva House
Courtesy of Guillermo Fischer

When leaving the dining room open on the patio facing Iguaque, and closed towards the other, a front and a back is built in the house, which also defines the social and private area.


Villa de Leyva House
Site Plan
Villa de Leyva House
Plan


Villa de Leyva House

Plan Sketch
Villa de Leyva House
Section and Facade


Villa de Leyva House
Distribution Sketch
Villa de Leyva House
Interior Perspective Sketch

Guillermo Fischer
T +57 1 6362484
Guillermo Fischer
Cl. 87 # 15-23 of.702, Chapinero, Bogotá, D.C., Bogotá, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia