Year of construction: 2016 Location: Guatemala City Design: Paz Arquitectura – Alejandro Paz Participants: Eva Muñoz Photography: Andrés Asturias
The Project is a single house for a young couple with two children. The concept is to take advantage of the open structure and integrate the social areas within. The borders between different interior and exterior spaces can be integrated or divided. The owners seek to value the family’s interaction, but also provide private spaces for each.
The task for Paz Arquitectura was to analyze the list family’s needs and their feelings, to provide a modern and free architecture with open spaces and simple finishes. The owners requested to use different types of structure and the natural color of materials.
The house should feel coherent between the exterior and interior, so the composition of the front façade was used for the interiors to unify with the textures.
The volumetric design was made giving each material a different space within the composition so each one has its place.
However in the interior, each material corresponds to a different task. Wood for the partitions, concrete for transition and white walls for the main spaces.
The materials used were light colored wood, gray concrete, with walls, glass and black stone.
A cozy scale was provided in the family areas and a monumental scale in the social areas and transition spaces.
The house achieves a sense of refuge, seeking privacy for the family through a pleasing volumetric design, friendly with the neighborhood, satisfying the family’s needs and generating a good relationship with the community.