The materials are cleverly used, making the building both light and cheap. A cane structure supports three concrete slabs with different inclination (10%, 8%, and 16%). The concrete slabs are lightened with rice husks, reducing its weight by 9 tons.
The quality of the space is not compromised by the low cost of the materials, but enriched by "the flexibility and lightness of the cane, the polycarbonate veil, the reflections of the glass, the containment of the concrete, the touch of the brick, the safety of the mesh, and the permanence of the stone".
Description of project by Bamba + de Teresa + González
Delimiting
The location of the project is due to the choice by customers of two trees in slope, between which to locate a cabin that allows you to spend the night and keep track of the surrounding productive land. This certain inconsistency of the house in the beginning, together with a small budget, allows the project to question the relationship with the slope of the land and explore alternatives that allow ascending and living at a lower price.
The ascent to the observation point is produced from a first drawing of the clients, in which they place themselves on the roof of the house, and draw between the two trees a broken ramp in sections of different slopes that are Little by little distance from the ground.
Inhabiting the slope
The horizontal flat plane is human artifice that has gained importance in the domestic territory until it became unquestionable, and yet there is no natural horizontal that we can inhabit on the planet. The house proposes to recover the inclined plane as a living space, capable of giving access to the horizontal surfaces that support the conventional program of a house (living room, kitchen, bathroom, bed and office), in a displacement that allows to reach a height 9 meters without climbing stairs.
The program is therefore aligned along three inclined planes that extend the slope of the land, generating several overlapping decks, and at whose junction point they are drilled to be inhabited and allow shortcuts between the different parts of the program.
Where do I put the furniture?
The ground, as the main playground during childhood, is normally transformed from a certain age into a distant terrain due to its horizontality. The house on the ramp aims to recover the floor as an inhabitable territory, bringing it closer to adults, inviting them to sit on it and allowing them, thanks to its inclination, to gauge gravity, while establishing a close relationship with the land and distant with the sea. There is thus an indeterminate space that suggests to the occupants a reformulation of their habits by creating a disagreement with the standardized furniture.
Building with less
A guadua cane structure wraps the central brick core as a scaffolding, building three sections of different inclination (10%, 8%, and 16%) that adapt to the corresponding program. The ramp development of the structure allows the triangulation of the structure, and the use of lightened concrete slabs with rice husks reduces its weight by 9 tons, generating a semi-open structure that allows to build less than $ 100 per m2.
The flexibility and lightness of the cane, the polycarbonate veil, the reflections of the glass, the containment of the concrete, the touch of the brick, the safety of the mesh, and the permanence of the stone, collaborate in the construction of a volume whose quality It mainly resides in the amount of space generated.
