Excerpt: Casa Manantial by Apaloosa Estudio de Arquitectura y Diseño is a spacious residence that opens from patios and internal areas, revealing all spaces through cancels and panels. The house is confined with old hollow block walls and an internal vault. From its construction, the villa behaves like a cone of absorption and distribution of light and wind, from the center there are its habitable areas, achieving optimal thermal comfort.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] On a plot of 10.00 x 20.00 meters and with a program of 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room, an integral kitchen, a service patio, and a storage room, all on level ground, endemic atmospheres were created that allowed space and rest for its users. From a constructive process and with an introspection declared from the outset. Here, natural light is the protagonist of the project.
The financial strength of the clients allowed them to create a simple, fast and, above all, low-cost construction strategy, which in turn will avoid maintenance in the future. The house is confined with old hollow block walls and an internal vault by Domotej, a patent from the Autonomous University of Chiapas focused on self-construction. From its construction, the villa behaves like a cone of absorption and distribution of light and wind, from the center there are its habitable areas, achieving optimal thermal comfort.
The house opens and opens from its patios and between internal areas, providing a large living room function, where all spaces can be revealed with just the right to open cancels and panels; One of the main challenges in the work was the pipeline planning and logistics for installations, taking into account that, while having the entire work process exposed, it was not possible to make grooves in walls and slabs.
The project follows the concept of sustainability, based on passive and active bioclimatic strategies; in the first red one begins with the strategy of construction and distribution of the areas of the house, each area visually guides and directly leaves the central corridor open, taking advantage of this free area of the constant circulation of air and natural light without falling in incidence direct solar caloric. From the active bioclimatic strategies, the applications are high and varied: from the use of the cover through the domotej system of the Autonomous University of Chiapas, to the capture of rainwater, as well as the reorientation of the drainage of the groundwater layer of the rises in the rear area.
The solution is born from the placement and distribution; it is well known that a building with a central patio creates its microenvironment, here it was not the exception to the factor against the minimum dimensions of the land. The central patio that serves as a corridor and garden absorbs, channels and distributes wind and light to all areas of the house as well as views of endemic gardens from each room and social area. The only change in level occurs from a pre-existence of the land cut, this serves the designers to leave the cars lower and not at the level of the house.
A single plastering plate in reinforced concrete, used to start up the walls and castles; the correct planning and wastefulness of exposed blocks allowed cuts and waste to be avoided; the castillos are anchored in the alveoli of the block and confined with greater rigidity to the walls; the only reinforced concrete exposed is the upper enclosure ridge, here resting the hosed mounds that are responsible for supporting the dome roof.
Something very interesting about the project is precisely its cover by Domotej, a self-construction strategy designed by Dr. Gabriel Castañeda and donated to the Autonomous University of Chiapas; The Domotej is a 1.00 x 1.00 module which, due to its concave geometry with a square base, allows it to support minimally reinforced concrete slabs with electro-welded floor material. Between the Domotej and the concrete plate there are polystyrene or PET blocks that provide thermal and acoustic insulation.
The dome modules rest on a pair of twin mounts every meter and which in turn connect with the extreme walls; wall tiles are made of 20 x 20 x 40 centimeters old honeycomb blocks that have an integral ring attached to the castillos attached to the corners and every 1.5 meters.
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