House in La Calera

House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango

HOUSE IN LA CALERA

Plan:b arquitectos

STRUCTURAL DESIGN
Orange Ingeniería Estructural

CONSTRUCTION
Métrica Constructores

MANUFACTURERS
Decoblock

PROJECT DIRECTION
Verónica Mesa

PHOTOGRAPHS
Alejandro Arango

DESIGN TEAM
Sebastián González, Laura Kate Correa, Cristian Camacho, Leyre Vicente, Natasha Álvarez

CATEGORY
Houses

AREA
257 m²

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
La Calera, Colombia

Text description provided by the architects

This project's challenge consisted of designing a compact house adapted to the irregular geometry of the lot, its changing levels, and regulation with a strict limit of the built area on the first floor.

House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango

We leave the only small flat space of the lot for the parking. In this way, we cut the sloping area of the land (45% slope), generating a terrace to locate a longitudinal volume, taking advantage of the best views of the natural landscape.

We defined a section with three levels: the first, in contact with the land, houses the social areas, services, and two small offices with independent access; the second, connected to the access terrace using a bridge, have the hall and the rooms; and the third, more private, houses a study and a terrace open to the landscape.

House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango

The house section has two sloping roofs in the longitudinal direction of the house, allowing greater height in the main room and space for technical areas.

To avoid retaining walls and humidity, we arranged the volume of the house in an exempt manner on the ground.

House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango

Its compact volume and black concrete block walls gain temperature slowly during the day and lose it little by little during the night, consistently responding to the area's tropical, cold and rainy climate.

We carefully study the position and geometry of each balcony, window, or terrace, connecting the house with the surrounding rural context.


House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango


House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango
House in La Calera
© Alejandro Arango


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Plan - Site
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Plan - First floor
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Plan - Second floor
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Plan - Third floor


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Section - AA
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Section - BB
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Section - CC
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Section - FF


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Elevation - South
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Elevation - West
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Elevation - North
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Elevation - East