Name: Solano Benitez + Gabinete de Arquitectura
Email: gabdearq@telesurf.com.py
Profession / occupation: Architect
Project Name: Casa abu & font
Client: Isidro Cabrera
Contributors: Alberto Marinoni. Berenice Gómez. carlos omen. BAZET clear. cristina cabrera. diego Cazale. gerardo Esteche. cabral glory. Wilhelmine church. Javier Pineda. Jasmine torrents. josé castelleti. John Paul Carron. Laura Alviso. lisandro villavuena. Lorraine Silvera. Luis Ayala. mara Corvalan. Natalia Ferreiro. nicolas aransivia. olivia villanueva. olivia Zorraquin. pillar donkey. Silvia Vázquez. Solano Benitez
Construction: Office of Architecture
Structural Calculation: Enrique Granados.
Location: Asuncion, Paraguay

Idea: The numbers say that in South America, a family is victimized by violence and insecurity every second. If grief is sequence of pain, measured in proximity, the number of times that the time in their lives interrupted course, we get the totals that are in demand for its protection.

Built to protect a house against all the bad weather, the sun and rain and that intensify indifference, fear and loneliness, a house as a tool of resistance, where again nest life.

A mother and her many children, and his life in line, other 7 families and twenty grandchildren, meeting every Saturday in either place, has first program after the exodus and the new hopes. Life is persistent longing, that adapts and transforms is architecture.

A free floor where there are just fragments of the service, and that the doors open the space, until the house and your property may be one. In fact the interior and exterior to match the openings to comply with the mandate of its name.

Vierendheel Two 14-meter beams holding up the house that it weighs heavily on four pillars that rest on the edge, the separation between them is 11 meters and the longitudinal beams make contact and cross in overhangs to balance their internal tensions. The whole was closed by adding a ceramic tile navy, which supplements tension in the bottom of the whole.

The other two floors are the order of the privacy-bedrooms and be intimately-are prepared against the hot Paraguayan, a subfloor us closer to the desirable temperature underground, their degrees of more and less in winter and summer respectively, are a good will and a bonus of relief, in a place where temperatures range between 47 and -2 degrees Celsius. The upper floor instead looking at increasing the amount of air volume, a contention so inclement, the cut of 5 m high refers us to a size that does not match the common contemporary space, but to achieve and maintain this air preserved, all energy is put into it habitable.

Where there is not much, austerity is more than necessary, and the strategy for achieving it, is to operate only from the essentials, the ceramic brick building is the material of lowest price in our country, and is used at the end of their capacities such as floors, walls and sky are smoothed cement coating everything claimed in contact with water, glass and metal structures joined together to support large-size doors and enclosures of plywood, Sealants or expand the functions and their spaces.

Each topic is approached from the same perspective, asking the material that defines them, which makes the time to solve basic structure with no fillers, nothing else should be because there is money that you can buy, for everything else is ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Photoshop.

Gabinete de Arquitectura
Marinoni Alberto Cabral + + Gloria Solano Benitez

Authors: Architect Solano Benitez, Gabinete de Arquitectura

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