Casa KADM - Condominio KADM

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La casa KADM fue una comisión muy interesante para diseñar una casa de 300 m2 para un joven empresario que estaba por casarse.

Desde el inicio se hablaban de tres áreas, tres espacios, así que conceptualmente se diseñó la casa como tres cubos sostenidos por un paralelepípedo que contenía los servicios generales y áreas sociales.

Los tres cubos se manifiestan como cubos suspendidos y son los dormitorios, dos secundarios y uno principal que se extiende hasta el fondo de la casa.

El cubo del cuarto principal es un cubo a media altura y de altura u media de alto que alberga una sala y un cuarto de lectura a medio nivel más abajo pero integrado con el dormitorio principal.

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Los materiales son como siempre acabados naturales (cemento pulido, madera etc.) para garantizar la durabilidad de la casa.

Cube Museum I – Museo Cubo I

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This exercise focuses on transformation and how a cube grid can house a transformative system. The Cube is present with a 3d grid and a series of “bars” composed of 3 cubes 80cms in height. This bars slide and become stairs, benches, exhibition surfaces etc. this bars can slide form 3 sides of the cube to change the space inside.

To test this three-dimensional gizmo, it needs to be inserted and proven with an open and free flowing functional program.  

Thus a museum was chosen to use the gizmo. Several cubic gizmos where arranged in a linear fashion to create a linear path to exhibit the works. The gizmo can be changed so the exhibition space can change depending on which type of exhibition is chosen. The gizmo is open so an enclosure needed to be designed in order to make a semi-dry space.

The resulting design is a museum open space that can change depending on the exhibit. It is a free-flow transformative form and space.

JM Beach House - Casa de Playa JM

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Fast forward to last week. New commission, old happy client. Now it is a beach house in a very small lot (barely 9m x 15m) inside a beach closed community.

The parameters allowed 9mts in height and required a 3m setback on the front and a 50cms side setback. It also forced for 30% of clear area (area without any roof from the 1st floor viewed from the top).

The design approach forced a few things: vistas to the side (the front has a house only 6m apart), and the main social areas on a terrace on an open third floor.

The owner´s program asked for one parking space inside the lot and a minimum of 3 bedrooms. The diagrams show how the modeling allowed for the side vistas and closed the volume to the front allowing for some privacy in the bedrooms (specifically the master bedroom).