Excerpt: Casa Nola by Yemail Arquitectura is a pact with simplicity, an architecture that adapts to the environment and works with available energy. It seeks balance between body and landscape, allowing itself to be traversed by the elements. Without picturesqueness, it responds to light, water, and geography, creating space as sequence, transit, and pause—where nature passes through without resistance.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] Ethics, in principle, means considering others: the body of water in front of us, the soil and its microscopic inhabitants, the morning and evening light, the possibility of a tree crossing the space without disturbing the birds’ nest, or having the best conditions for looking at the sky between canopies.
As a physical phenomenon, architecture can enhance the imagination. To begin with, we ask ourselves whether the language of large existing stones provides the best conditions for relating to all the elements of a landscape.
At Casa Nola, in Cachipay, the answer lies in the balance that arises between the need to adapt to the environment and the desire to work with the available energy. An architecture with specific weight, without picturesqueness, that allows itself to be traversed by the elements and the force of the environment. A pact with simplicity.
Going up, down, floating, lying down, entering or leaving. We seek to talk about the relative positions of the body. In constructing this idea, there is a conscious preconception of movement and natural order: moving around the large stone, sheltering in a large mass of fired clay, walking on the roofs, spreading out on the terrace.
Architecture has charm to the extent that it allows itself to be inhabited by both the elements and people. When it understands space as sequence, transit, and pause. When, sometimes unconsciously, the construction responds to the geography of the place, its rhythms of light, the presence of water, the possibility of nature passing through it without resistance.
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