The Shelter

The Shelter
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The Shelter

PEDRO MONCAYO TORRES arquitectura

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Pedro Moncayo Torres, Tatiana Pérez

DESIGN TEAM
Pedro Moncayo Torres, Doménica Bustamante, Omar Moncayo

INTERIOR DESIGN
PMT arquitectura

AREA
175 m²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Tarqui, Ecuador

CATEGORY
Houses

The Shelter
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The Shelter
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Text description provided by architect.

El Refugio, located in the Southern countryside of Cuenca, Ecuador, is a rest space in connection with nature.

The Shelter
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The Shelter
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The project, located on a farm, generates a personal space for a reduced family group.

The approach to the site starts from a second-order road, from which a first perspective is generated that highlights the topography and the impressive endemic forest.

The Shelter
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The Shelter
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The project doesn’t look forward to challenging the landscape, but rather to be part of it through its materiality and volumetric proposal.

The constructive system, based on the vernacular architecture, besides being a link between the morphological contemporaneity of the project with the majesty of the landscape, proves its appropriateness.

The Shelter
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The Shelter
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The local stone walls, the artisanal bricks on the floors, and the roof made with wooden structure, reed cane, and clay roof tiles give thermal balance to the shelter that mitigates the climatology conditions of the zone.

The program, developed in 175m2, is organized into two basic volumes.

The first block hosts the social area, including a porch as a transition element between nature and the house. The second element, located in the back zone for privacy reasons, contains the restroom.

The Shelter
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The Shelter
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The division between volumes generates a third zone that constitutes the heart of the project, the kitchen, and the barbecue. This space brings back the primitive hut concept, where the fire is the center of social activities.


The Shelter
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The Shelter
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The Shelter
© Nicolás Provoste C.


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Plan
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Plan - Roof


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Elevation - Front
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Elevation - Side
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Elevation - Side
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Elevation - Rear
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Section - Longitudinal
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Section - Cross


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Section


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Axo
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