Article source: Taller EC

A challenge for any designer is to face an environment in which the landscape is preponderant, in which no intervention will go unnoticed, for critical eyes, will condemn the authors to heaven or hell. There is no doubt that the responsible architectonic task in the equinoctial Andes requires an acute knowledge of the territory but, above all, the neat continuity of correct decisions is necessary.

Image Courtesy © Lorena Darquea Schettini and Paolo Caicedo

• Architects: Taller EC
  Project: Mikhuna building
• Location: Calacalí, Ecuador
• Photography: Lorena Darquea Schettini, Paolo Caicedo
• Client: Mikhuna Trade
• Partners in Charge: Pablo Castro Guijarro – Roberto Morales Guijarro
• Constructor: TEC Taller EC – Juan Ruiz / Cynthia Quintero
• Design Team: Juan Ruiz, Cynthia Quintero, Daniel Rodríguez, Gabriel Echeverría, Hillary Jarrín, Bryan Velasteguí
• Text: Esteban Calderón Taipe
• Area: 300 m2

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