Culunco House / AL BORDE
Excavated Construction
© Sebastián Coral
Architects: AL BORDE
Location: Tumbaco, Ecuador
Client: Family Larrea Bravo
Area: 185.92 sqm
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Sebastián Coral , Elaine González, Melanie Kautz, AL BORDE
Project Coordinator: Elaine González
Construction: Cristina Bravo
Furniture: Juan SubÃa, Felipe Donoso, Diego Benavides
Design: 2012 -2013
© Elaine González
From the architect. Excavated ConstructionCulunco is the name given to the paths situated in the middle of a dense vegetation, generally paths that were created for ancient villages of Latin America, like those of the Incas. This is as well the name that the architects from Al Borde chose for an excavated house in the middle of a sloping ground, surrounded by earth and trees in the Valley of Tumbaco, in Quito. The original project was composed of two houses, one of which was finally built, constructed with local materials.Â
© Elaine González
The starting point was an intense contact with the nature, although it was modified by the harmonious presence of the house. The orthogonal volume is composed of two programs divided by the stairs of the entrance but united by a same excavation, same construction system and same roof. On one side, buried, ar...
© Sebastián Coral
Architects: AL BORDE
Location: Tumbaco, Ecuador
Client: Family Larrea Bravo
Area: 185.92 sqm
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Sebastián Coral , Elaine González, Melanie Kautz, AL BORDE
Project Coordinator: Elaine González
Construction: Cristina Bravo
Furniture: Juan SubÃa, Felipe Donoso, Diego Benavides
Design: 2012 -2013
© Elaine González
From the architect. Excavated ConstructionCulunco is the name given to the paths situated in the middle of a dense vegetation, generally paths that were created for ancient villages of Latin America, like those of the Incas. This is as well the name that the architects from Al Borde chose for an excavated house in the middle of a sloping ground, surrounded by earth and trees in the Valley of Tumbaco, in Quito. The original project was composed of two houses, one of which was finally built, constructed with local materials.Â
© Elaine González
The starting point was an intense contact with the nature, although it was modified by the harmonious presence of the house. The orthogonal volume is composed of two programs divided by the stairs of the entrance but united by a same excavation, same construction system and same roof. On one side, buried, ar...
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