Architecture firm Rama Estudio has enlarged a small holiday home in an Ecuadorian forest by adding a glass-and-metal box that extends over the hillside.
Rama Estudio extended Casa Mirador for a family that wanted to spend more time in their holiday home following the coronavirus pandemic.
Rama Estudio extended Casa Mirador in Ecuador
Located in a rural part of Pichincha, a province in the north-central region of Ecuador, the family used the 70-square-metre holiday home for short and sporadic periods of time.
The building contained a bedroom and bathroom, along with a multipurpose space where the family's two daughters would sleep.
The glass extension extends out about a hillside
During the coronavirus pandemic, the owners decided to enlarge the dwelling so they could reside there for longer stretches. "The specific request was to expand their existing house for social areas, include comfortable and independent bedrooms for the daughters, and take advantage of the view of the site," said Rama Estudio, a firm based in Ecuador's capital, Quito.
"As a special requirement, the work had to start immediately and had to be built in no more than three months."
The glass extension continues an open-plan kitchen, dining and living space
The original home sits on a lush site, at the edge of a hillside overlooking a valley.
For the extension, the firm conceived a single-storey, glazed box that is lifted above the sloped terrain and is supported by a system of meta...