Natura Futura Arquitectura

Productive House La Balconera

PRODUCTIVE HOUSE LA BALCONERA

Natura Futura Arquitectura

Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio
Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio

COLLABORATOR
Flor Pazmiño

ILLUSTRATION
Espacio Mem

MANUFACTURERS
Dipac, Dolmen, Maderas Pedro

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jag Studio

AREA
400 M²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Ecuador

CATEGORY
Houses, Store

Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio

Text description provided by architect.

Located in the city of Montalvo, a satellite city of Babahoyo, Ecuador, with approximately 16 thousand inhabitants, has based its urban growth on a horizontal, dispersed, and low density.

This has led to the abandonment of traditional organizational systems such as the gallery and the porch that promoted the connection with the street and community life.

Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio
Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio
Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio

In this sense, it seeks to recover the link between private and public use.

A local family finds the need to transform their 19mx11m lot into a residential and commercial space within the urban center, where a restaurant and three houses corresponding to the mother and daughters will operate, promoting coexistence and work together within the same space.

Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio
Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio
Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio

For this purpose, it is proposed to divide the program in half: restaurant to the left and housing to the right.

The commercial area comprises a kitchen space and a double-height, which is connected horizontally by a porticoed bridge that links the spaces for diners with the outdoor gallery.

Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio
Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio

The residential area comprises one first-floor apartment and two upper-floor apartments.

Both parts of the program are linked to the outdoor gallery through folding and hinged lattice doors, whose shared use will depend on the activity of the restaurant.

Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio
Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio

The project proposes a system of modular pouches that configure the exterior gallery; by means of beams and tensors of wooden planks and metal plates.

La Balconera offers a new possibility of diversifying urban centers, through the recovery of the gallery and the traditional porch as configuring elements that promote the link with the street, from a collective and productive habitat.

Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio


Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio
Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio
Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio
Productive House La Balconera
© JAG Studio


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Productive House La Balconera
Productive House La Balconera
Cortesía de Espacio MeM

Natura Futura Arquitectura
Natura Futura Arquitectura
1204 Babahoyo, Ecuador