Avella Taller de Arquitectura has reconstructed a recreational summer camp in Venezuela, including solid brick buttresses that draw on a nearby Spanish colonial fortification.
Two Cabins in Yaracuy is located in the Massif de Nirgua, a mountainous region not far from the Caribbean coast.

The children's camp originally consisted of cabins built from wattle and daub ? a composite of interwoven sticks covered with mud or clay. These were hand-built 14 years ago with the local community's help.
Over time, the 40-hectare estate had grown informally, and the structures were eventually rendered inadequate for the number of kids who attended the camp.

Ricardo Avella from Avella Taller de Arquitectura (ATA) was commissioned to replace the cabins with two new builds, while retrofitting existing structures so they would be suitable for future expansion. The project became more about creating an "architectural grammar" for the entire camp rather than ad-hoc improvements.

The solid brick buttresses, inspired by ruins of a nearby 16th-century Spanish fortress, stand out among the cabins' architectural components.
"From the beginning, I thought of proposing a catalogue of elements that could bring both new and existing structures a common identity to the estate," Avella told Dezeen. "The buttress is one of those elements, and brick, as a material, is another one."
"We sought to create a flexible compositional unit constituting the buttresses, brick s...