Atenea building is residential project designed for the members of a cultural organization. It´s six stories house seven different apartments which respond to the variety of the member’s needs. The inhabitants encourage a community lifestyle. Therefore, the housing units are designed as small open and free spaces that barely hold the minimum private support areas. The idea is that those units are complemented with a full common service and entertainment areas which includes meeting spaces, TV room, gym, yoga and dance studio, reading room, among others.
The land is sloping on a rocky hill away from the beach, has trapezoidal shape (471.9m2) and borders on the sides with 2 neighboring lots. The house is created in levels (Terrace 1 and 2, basement, First and Second Floor) to take advantage of the view of the sea, not only horizontally but also vertically. 15 years ago, there were no beach houses in the south of Lima , people spent the summer and festivities making camps. Families and friends gathered and built tents to sleep around a central space, where the grill, the dining room and the campfire were located. People walked barefoot day and night, they could feel the temperature and texture of the sand, the cold and the heat. Around the central space, they met until late at night to enjoy the outdoors (sea, stars, fire and friends), meals, parties and conversations were held.
The project consists of a private beach house in La Jolla condo in the 101 kilometer south of Lima.The Project is in the second row, has long form, measuring 30 meters long by 10 meters wide.
The house is created for 3 families, parents and children with spouses and grandchildren.
Each family is represented by each cube with different materials and features that form a simple composition, easy to remember. The position of each figure, form the interior and exterior spaces.
The house is designed to create a great spatiality, both distances and heights, was important connection of the different spaces and transparency throughout the house, along, width and height.
The project proposed processes which promote the exchange of knowledge, the revaluing of human resources, and the use of local materials. Importantly, versatile spaces were proposed to be in line with new pedagogical methodologies.
The building is organized into 4 modules: 3 classrooms and 1 multipurpose space. In addition, two existing classrooms were repurposed as a residence for the teachers, and the toilets were renovated. The three classroom modules are located along the southern end of the lot with the longitudinal façade running north and south.
Cooperation: CPS – Comunitá Promozione Sviluppo, Pobladores de la CN de Jerusalén de Miñaro, Municipalidad Distrital de Pangoa, Municipalidad provincial de Satipo
Construction: Javier Garcia Paucar, Elías Martínez Ramos
Founded in 1875, the Regatas club is one of the oldest rowing clubs in South America. After the reconstruction of one of the piers, a restaurant that echoes the first rowing building was commissioned to Barclay & Crousse. Amar de Lima restaurant is located at the end of the pier, with an independent platform linked to it through a short bridge.
This project, to be developed in a residential neighborhood in the east area of the city of Lima, belongs to a particular client. The challenge: meet all the requirements of the owner in an irregular piece of land on a hill with steep slopes. The location of the land and the view you have from it towards part of the city, would be decisive for the project.
The Project is born from the idea of recovering an old cockfight coliseum no longer in use, and changing its purpose without transforming the original space and traces. The coliseum and the cocks had a big sentimental value for the owners because of a family tradition. This is the reason why the project turned out into the creation of a memorial garden.
The Ronda House is built on a rectangular lot that measures 12 meters wide and 22 meters deep on a priviledged site, facing the Pacific Ocean, a lateral view of white sands and dunes and backed by a beautiful red hill, thus the name of the place: Cerro Colorado (Red Hill).
The project is a private beach house, located in the condominium Mast in Paracas, a 250 kms. the capital of Peru (Lima). It is in an area of 467.27m2 irregularly shaped front row with ocean view.
The house was designed for a friends married couple with two teenage daughters, construction has 448.90m2 and a free area of 186m2.