Felipe Escudero designs himself a Quito residence with area to make rap music
Ecuadorian architect Felipe Escudero has designed a home for himself in Quito that features a black kitchen and an area to make rap music.
The property is only a brief stroll from the workplace of his structure apply Estudio Felipe Escudero within the capital metropolis’s fashionable neighbourhood La Floresta – which might be likened to Brooklyn’s Williamsburg.
Escudero, who has a canine referred to as Huma, renovated a three-storey residence inside a brick housing improvement with the valley of Guapulo on one aspect. The property is called Vista Al Este, which interprets as East View.
The principle intervention was to take away a portion of the first-floor slab to create a double-height area topped with a rooflight. The architect additionally demolished partitions on the bottom flooring to create an open-plan kitchen, residing and eating room with a big window on the far finish that frames the plush view.
Furnishings are sparse and are available in numerous palettes to mark the assorted areas within the open area.
Black kitchen cabinets and a counter run alongside one aspect, ending in a nook of black-painted brick that’s occupied by a bar cart. Furnishings within the eating space on the opposing aspect, in the meantime, are all wooden – together with the eating desk, an extended pendant gentle hanging above and paintings on the wall behind.
The residing space is positioned in entrance of the window and is embellished in a grey-scale palette, selecting up on the white-painted partitions and speckled stone flooring of this degree. Among the many muted decor are a settee, a black and white rug, and a transparent plastic desk. It’s then accented by a vivid orange chair the place Escudero can take pleasure in a drink and the view.
Escudero, who intends to host common events within the area, made a mini music studio embellished with an abundance of planting on the opposite finish of this degree.
“Since there are not any bodily boundaries, areas are outlined by way of supplies,” mentioned the studio.
“The lounge is supposed to be a relaxed and relaxed area with grayscale textures, the eating room is stuffed with natural wood shapes, the inside backyard and music studio are stuffed with vibrant colors to spice up creativity and the kitchen and toilet home equipment are all black to symbolise service areas.”
A staircase with wood treads leads as much as the highest degree. Current partitions have been additionally eliminated on this degree to create a big bed room with a window to the valley view and an extended moist room, with the 2 are separated by black wardrobes.
Casa Roca’s curved concrete partitions are designed to provide an architectural “hug”
Within the bed room, Escudero continued the greyscale paletted, with a black leather-based mattress, a rug and an enormous mirror – chosen to suit the architect’s tall body.
The lavatory can be monochrome and has a big glass bathe at one finish. The association permits for views and pure gentle by from the highest of the staircase to the window on the far wall.
White folding doorways are constructed into this flooring to partition the main bedroom from the visitor bed room positioned on the opposite aspect of this flooring. In between the 2, Escudero created a shoot to drop soiled garments all the way down to the basement degree, the place the laundry room is positioned.
“A structural cylinder that helps the steps was opened inside in order that garments may be straight transported from the higher flooring bedrooms into the laundry room,” mentioned the studio.
Escudero established his Quito studio, often known as EFE, after working at Heatherwick Studio in London and MAD in Beijing.
The apply’s different initiatives in Ecuador embrace Casa Roca within the capital metropolis, which has curved concrete partitions are designed to provide an architectural “hug”, a clover-shaped home constructed close to Chimborazo mountain and a cheese manufacturing unit in Pifo.