San Juan House

San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez

SAN JUAN HOUSE

Jose María Saez

ARCHITECTS
Jose María Sáez

YEAR
2007

CATEGORY
Houses

LOCATION
Quito , Ecuador

San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez

Text description provided by architect.

A house in Quito's Historic Old Town turns its gaze on a private garden.

San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez

On the old terrace, the new hall becomes a connector between the interior and the exterior.

A continuous steel girder reaffirms the vocation of openness to the landscape, while its horizontality unifies the facade facing the garden.

The extremes of the beam are delicately separated from the adobe (sun-dried mud brick) wall, barely tapping them.

San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez

The mobile gallery allows for a wide range of openings towards the garden, user selectable room can regain its original condition terrace.

Inside, the hall is an internal connector, the heart of the house.

Massive, substantive, timeless, is the extreme expression of the materiality of the house.

San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez

Its verticality relates only to the sun and the other rooms.

The thick and irregular perforations are aligned with the internal visuals, creating a primitive and non-obvious order.

The constructive system is the principal actor of this original house and its land: Hanging a beam of eighteen meters, placing a ceiling on structural walls, digging a crack in the ground to save the sharp drop.

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San Juan House
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San Juan House
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San Juan House
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San Juan House
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San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez
San Juan House
© Jose María Sáez


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San Juan House