Human population is increasing in almost 2% a year. The need for shelter to develop our daily activities ends in a built environment. This must give good living conditions, like comfortable space, natural light, acoustics, etc. But the built environment also starts a dialogue with the preceding one, the natural environment, which must be sustainable. So in my point of view, Architecture faces two main human challenges. First, decreasing it’s impact over nature’s equilibrium, and second, building many square meters of good quality for actual and coming population. I am right now as an Architect, in this second challenge, trying to develop prefab systems with good (true/beauty) design.
That’s why I selected Prefabrication as an strategy for building my projects, but also during the design process too. The hypothesis is, that if you create a prefabricated system which has good architectural design, then you can reproduce this quality as much as you need it, within the laws of short/long production series. And if in the serial industrial production of buildings you get bored, you can also customize form and function through the system. More benefits when you fasten building process, and have more control on quality and cost.
Yellow is the third name of this house. First it was Silvered House, because of the colour of the surrounding trees by winter. Then it was Desafasada House name, that’s related to the planes of the volumetrical composition of the project. But when the house got to yellow, on the decision about external covering, the colour was too powerful to conquer the final name of the house.
In this project the prefabricated system is not only used in the construction aspect of the house, but also in the way the house is designed. So at the beginning I choose a slab panel, as the dimensional unit in the plan. This panel can be 122 x 244 cm (4x8 feet), 122 x 366 cm or 122 x 488 cm. Then I transform that slabs to a volume by adding modular walls (244 cm tall) and roof. The result I’ve called it spatial module that is a space defined by two walls and two slabs. Afterwards I adjust room dimension needs, to what’s similar in SlPspatial modules, so the multiplication of this modules create each room, or programmatic modules. In the end of the conceptual design, I order all the programmatic modules by some layout, and there’s the resulting space and form.
Material Used:
1. Facades, OndulatedZincalumn, CINTAC
2. Pilotis, 8“ diamenter Wood, PEHUEN
3. SIP Panels, LAUTARO
4. Interior Painting, FONTALEF
