Equis House in Cañete, Peru by Barclay & Crousse Arquitectura

Equis House is based in the city of Cañete, Peru. The architects Barclay & Crousse have sought to create the necessary intimacy to live in the desert and to ‘domesticate’ it without denying or betraying its characteristics.

We started by conceiving a pure solid which would appear to have always been there. During the design process, we “excavated” this theoretical solid, removing matter bit-by-bit, just as archaeologists would remove sand to discover the pre-Columbian ruins in this region. The resulting exterior spaces merge with interior spaces in a continuous fluid space within an enclosure that pushes the ambiguity between interior and exterior spaces to its limits.



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June 24th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
[...] La Casa Equis es un proyecto de Barclay & Crousse, con el que esta pareja ha conseguido varios premios internacionales en Perú, EE.UU. y U.K . Es una pena que muchos arquitectos sean reacios a publicar las plantas de sus edificios, o más material fotográfico en sus páginas web sobre sus obras, algo que resulta bastante paradójico y que en este caso una vez más se repite, porque uno se queda con ganas de saber más sobre este proyecto. Se vió en Cubeme. [...]