Houses We Love: Every day we include an amazing area submitted by our neighborhood of designers, designers, contractors, and property owners. Have one to share? Post it here.Project Details: Location: Quito, Ecuador Carpenter: Alfredo Acosta Photographer: JAG Studio/ @jag_studio From the Architect:” Arupo increases serenely before
the Ilaló volcano, in the Cornejo community of Conocoto. It is the home of a couple who accept retirement not as an ending but as a threshold into a different time: slower in work, yet more extreme in love for their children and grandchildren. An intimate haven, yet open– all set to invite family, buddies, and the circulation of life itself. The memory of an accident provided the certainty that living need to suggest flexibility from barriers. Your home accepts the slope with ramps connecting three levels in a continuous journey, nearly as if all were a single aircraft. Motion becomes fluid, available, continuous.” Its nearly square strategy unfolds around an arupo tree welcomed by a fountain in the central
patio. Here, time becomes noticeable: the pink blooms announce the seasons, drought and rain leave their traces on the walls, dawns and sunsets framed by the patio advise the residents that each day is distinct. This green and liquid heart brings together the social and the intimate, while carefully opening to Ilaló and its gardens. “The building and construction rests on 3 concepts: comfort, proximity, and intimacy. Bearing walls of handmade brick,
produced on the slopes of the really volcano that dominates the view, expose in their abnormality the imprint of human labor. Above them, a wooden roofing system multiplies the heat of light, creating spaces woven with shadows– refuges populated by time.”