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Vega house design is a project for a couple of adults who seek for a rural restig house for the rest of their lives… Where the solitude of them with the nature keeps on this private refugee the quite place that they were seeking.
Project details
Location: Rivera/Huila- Colombia
Date: May 2022
Area: 245m2 / 803ft2
Collab: Juan Pablo Pacheco / Jaime Danilo Bulla / DNA Design & Architecture
The main need
On a 2000M2 plot land he had the goal to design a rural house with the commodity of urban city. After visit the plotland we start talking with our client about the project and the dessires that he has around this house. The main concern for him was to design a house that even when he became older and couldn´t be bale to stay by his own, would be confortable in all the aspects. He also thought in case of having a reduce mobility, the house work perfectly.
Always when I design a house for an old adult. I put as a main concept the readability of the building. It means the minor effort to displacement in the building, so the user can enjoy the building till the end of their days.
Our client wanted a private house from the outside. Where no one can see or decode the house. But totally the opposite at the internal view of the house to the backyard. Where the main goal was to be in touch with the nature, and fully open to it.
For this project our client order to his son to be in charge of the project. A young entrepreneur who has a passion for architecture design. So I decide to share with him the whole process of design. So he can understand where the design decisions come from.
Vega house design
Once we consolidate an architecture program, and we know how big gonna be every area of the house, we start making some diagrams and scheme to understan the distribution. All of this based on the weather, the best view, the concept we had in mind,and the dessires of the client.
Bein in a tropical town where the average temperature is 28°C. The most important value is the sun path. Which will give us a morphology geometry to start. Our client wanted to have an exhuberant paisjism. So we decide to capture the rain water to use it for irrigation. With those premises we had a model base.
Our client wanted a house with only one level of displacement. Even with this request we had less than 20% of plotland occupation.
Over three socializations meeting we had the final design, where the esthetic we define was a pretty minimalist one, with the use of some solar shades with bamboo, simple volumes. Where the jerarquical element we decide to highlight was the acces. Wich also define the private and the social area at the inside.
One the decisions we made on design was to bring the nature inside the building. We did this creating interior courtyards. So this can be used a visual points to some areas, and to separate some other.
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