Backyard Homes / Marlene Ortiz – Florencia Fernández – Fernanda Garicoche

Backyard Homes / Marlene Ortiz – Florencia Fernández – Fernanda Garicoche


Textual content description offered by the architects. A lifestyle. Life within the outdated Paraguayan homes happened within the intermediate areas that had been distinctive to them. Sheltered from the sunshine however involved with the open air that circulated, the gathering and the spherical of tereré happened peacefully. All the pieces occurred within the gallery, reminiscences of a time previous underneath the bushes.



In a neighborhood close to the civic space of Fernando de la Mora, a consecutive metropolis to Asunción, a vacant plot of land measuring 50m x 23m with mature bushes casts treasured shadows over the positioning. The request to configure 8 single-family houses provides to the problem of preserving the bushes.



Returning to ancestral knowledge, the place the road between the skin and the within blurs and the backyard is conceived within the continuity of on a regular basis areas, or is it the opposite means round? The proposal of gardens intrinsic to the house and the slim width (6.60m) for every unit decide the construction that may qualify, situation, and allow residing. Pure mild intermingles within the areas and air flow fills them with freshness.


Lastly, 3 courtyards alternate and provides rise to the social areas on the bottom flooring, whereas on the higher flooring, the bedrooms are organized making the most of their advantages. Spatial continuity extends all through your entire plot. The construction proposes its liberation by eradicating the pillars from the boundaries.


Absolutely opening the enclosures of the central courtyard completes the combination of the backyard with the house. The lounge is maximized whereas integrating with the kitchen and eating room. The continuity with the rear patio offers consolation and optimizes the perform of the weather that encompass the barbecue. The culinary house is doubled, the eating room and the patio are unified, creating a big lounge, a big eating room. Upstairs, the extra introverted areas stay linked to the tree, having fun with the views, pure mild, and breezes.


One home, eight homes. The housing advanced is positioned with a 50m frontage to town. The choice to unify the facade and observe the slope of the road responds to the intention of constructing a unity, every home as half of a complete. “Casas Jardines” presents itself as an city gesture that seeks to combine with the environment and contribute to the standard of public house. Understanding an setting the place the scale of the sidewalks will not be beneficiant and strolling generally is a bit uncomfortable, the setback is elevated, creating an area for town. This choice seeks to enhance pedestrian permeability and create a extra pleasant setting for residents and passersby. An city gesture that sings to integration, to concord between private and non-private house. Casas Jardines celebrates a lifestyle that merges with nature and with the traditions of Paraguay.

