El Cortijo House by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos

The Chilean studio Felipe Assadi Arquitectos was commissioned to build a farmhouse in a space of 5000 m² in the Ecuadorian city of Samborondón. The idea on which the project is based is a central courtyard that visually connects all the spaces.

In this project, Felipe Assadi Arquitectos takes the idea of the typical blocks of the city of Guayaquil with attached buildings and interior patios. The divisions between adjacent domestic places are marked by separate ceilings and projections on the continuous façade.temasm².

Description of project by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos

The Project is located on a condominium development of a 5,000 m² lot. Nevertheless, the typology reflects the configuration of a different scale, of a typical city block in central Guayaquil, with back-to-back constructions occupying the perimeter and generating patios on the interior. If we were to remove the divisions, we would have a single continuous building with a large inner patio.

Likewise, the spaces of the house are articulated around a square central patio, with an internal corridor. The patio connects all of the spaces visually and ensures that the house has a landscape of its own.

The divisions between adjacent domestica places are marked by separate rooftos and projections on the continuos façade. Thus, they can be read as indepent units belonging to a single system. Exactly as in the center of the city.

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Sketches. El Cortijo House by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos.

Site Plan. El Cortijo House by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos.

Ground Floor Plan. El Cortijo House by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos.

Section A. El Cortijo House by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos.

Section B. El Cortijo House by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos.

Section C. El Cortijo House by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos.

Elevation 1. El Cortijo House by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos.

Elevation 2. El Cortijo House by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos.

Elevation 3. El Cortijo House by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos.

Elevation 4. El Cortijo House by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos.

3D model. El Cortijo House by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos.

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Architects

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Felipe Assadi

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Project team

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Macarena Ávila, Alejandra Araya and Trinidad Schönthaler

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Contractor

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Francisco Ibañez

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2018

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Location

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Urb. El Cortijo, Samborondón, Ecuador

Felipe Assadi. Felipe Assadi Arquitectos

Felipe Assadi is architect from Finis Terrae University 1996, and Master of Architecture from Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. In 1999 he received the 'Premio Promoción Joven' of the Association of Architects of Chile, awarded to the best architect under 35 of the country.

He has taught at several Chilean universities and other foreigners in Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Colombia and USA. From 2011 he serves as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Finis Terrae University.

He has been invited to lecture in Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Argentina, USA, Italy and Spain. His work has been widely published in several countries in magazines like Wallpaper and Architectural Review in London, Arquitectura Viva and AV Monografías in Madrid, Architectural Record in NY, GA Tokyo, Domus and Casabella in Italy among others and in specialized books around the world.

He has participated in exhibitions in Barcelona, Pamplona, London, Quito, Tokyo and Santiago. His work has been developed in Chile, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, United States, Ecuador and Colombia.

Nowadays he has four monographs, in Chile, Spain, Korea and Argentina.