Orange Lemon House / Daniel Moreno Flores + Santiago Vaca

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Architects: Daniel Moreno Flores, Santiago Vaca Jaramillo

Area: 65 m²

Year: 2017

Photographs: Andrés Villota Pelusa, Santiago Vaca Jaramillo

Lead Architects: Daniel Moreno Flores - Santiago Vaca Jaramillo

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Text description provided by the architects. A home destined to become quickly a definitive home
because the owners were looking for a house that would allow them to leave the rental department
soon and thus stop paying endless fees. The challenge was to design the project in a month and to
build the house of 65m2 in two months. A house which had to be an affordable one, for this purpose
blunt design strategies were defined: to create a structural constructive system that requires little time
of execution and covers a large area.

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Initially, the owners looked for a house of containers, nevertheless they required ample spaces, also
had to cover them and modify them the reason why the sense of its reuse was lost. For that reason, a
system of corrugated rod trusses that allows containing spaces was defined concretely and virtually,
besides the importance of structuring with our own measures for different uses.

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The foundation was built quickly with the leftovers from the rods and they were made as piles. The
modulation of the house is a function of the material (the trusses are 7.2 meters long), so it is
distributed every 1.20 m x 2.40 m in height to receive industrial plates and reduce execution costs.
However, in such a fast process we leave space for the spontaneous and the definition in the work in
progress.

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With all those involved, multiple meetings were held that generated a sense of belonging, and in a
process of maturation of the project it was decided to use pieces of Radiata Pinewood for the
secondary structure; and the closings of the house that are placed inside the structure, in order to gain
a comfortable feeling in the interior spaces.

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The habitable spaces are fragmented as volumes, to have better contact with the exteriors, to allow
plant growth between the blocks and also deprive views by the different displacements. As a small
house, possible future growth is planned. The diagonals of the trusses and the wooden diagonals that
structure the house crosswise define the shapes of the house. The result is a cozy house that allows
them to formulate new challenges.

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