Casa Observatorio, Quito House, Ecuador

Casa Observatorio, Quito, Ecuador

Ecuador House, Quito, Property, Photos, Design, Date, Architect, Images Quito House – Casa Observatorio Key contemporary building in Ecuador, South America – design by Arquitectura X 17 Apr 2008 Observatory house Location: Quito, Pichincha province, Ecuador Date built: 2004 Design: Arquitectura X Architects: arquitectura x – Adrian Moreno Núñez, María Samaniego Ponce Structural Design: Patricio … Read more

Casa X, Quito House Photos: Ecuador Residence

New home in the Tumbaco Valley, Quito, Ecuador

Not having a site when we started design on our house, we set out an elemental scheme that could work both in Quito and the valleys east of the city; this meant distilling our experience into an abstracted form, inspired in the work of Donald Judd, that could be placed in any of the sites we would be likely to find: an open ended box, whose spatial limits would be the eastern and western ranges of the Andes.