This pavilion was built by Semillas, the Lima-based practice of Marta Maccaglia, for the native community of Mencoriari, located in the region of Junín, in Peru’s central jungle. The project has created an educational space to complement the classroo
In this project carried out by the practice of Laura Salazar, Pablo Sequero, and Juan Medina, two adjacent asymmetrical volumes form a greenhouse and a semi-outdoor living room, creating a hybrid of the agricultural and the domestic. In a vernacular
The starting design decision was to separate the spaces for the performing arts – with specific dimensional, acoustic, and formal requirements – from other more generic spaces common to other schools.
Conceived as an autonomous and habitable water infrastructure, the center is organized in a longitudinal plan along the ridge of the hill following the ancestral techniques used by the Incas.
Resulting from a two-phase competition, the commission calls for the reconstruction of the school in multiple phases and on the same plot occupied by the old and now obsolete building, dating from the 1950s.
On a narrow and elongated plot, this complex includes apartments but also adds the necessary facilities to provide neighbors with the basic services that this spa from the 1950s lacked.
This residential building, located in Chacarilla del Estanque, a well-off neighborhood of the Peruvian capital, contains nine dwellings of different sizes and layout to promote social and family diversity.
In response to the complex regulations of the Barranco district in Lima, the apartments are recessed with regards to the facade wall to create a transition space between the public thoroughfare and the interiors.
Despite being based on one same module of 6x6x5.40 meters, each one of the five volumes holds a specific use and offers a unique atmosphere in which to experience the act of eating at a restaurant.
The main project strategy consisted in condensing the whole institutional program in a compact cylinder inspired by Cerro Baúl mountain, freeing up most of the plot to generate a large civic space for citizens.
The roof has two slanted surfaces clad with stone that generate a passive control system thanks to their form and thermal inertia, evoking at the same time the topography of Urubamba valley.
Developed as a typological variation of the Equis House, the six residences that make up the ensemble form a compact and coherent whole, even though they were not designedat the same time.
Semillas, a Lima-based firm set up in 2014 by Marta Maccaglia, conceived this multipurpose gathering space as a large covered plaza. Intended for the Ashaninka indigenous community of Otica, it is located on the banks of the Tambo River, in Peru’s ce
Shortlisted for the 2022 International FAD Awards, this work is an extension of the Villa Magisterial school in the district of Cerro Colorado, in Arequipa Province. The jury considered its attention to dignity in an environment of scarcity, its capa
Inspired in harvest rotations, an open system consisting of circles in the landscape resembling qochas – the old water dams – adapts to different users and activities: kitchen garden, stable, school, auditorium...
Architecture students from Zurich and Lima worked together in raising this workspace at the archaeological site of Pachacámac, located in the valley of the Lurín River, 50 kilometers from the Peruvian capital. The architects Guillaume Othenin-Girard
Located in the Miraflores district of the Peruvian capital, this building of brutalist aesthetics contains seventeen residences opening out to three distinct urban contexts.
The house sits at the confluence of two extreme landscapes, the desert and the Pacific Ocean, which together produce a humid but rainless climate and a constant temperature.
Inserted into a dry forest, this lecture hall built for the training of economically disadvanted people was awarded the 2018 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP).
The new museum seeks to address the fragile balance between preserving heritage, sharing it with the public, and integrating it with the landscape, cradle of the indigenous Paracas culture.
A network of mobile catwalks and hanging systems contributes to making the space adaptable to each event, helped here by a range of lighting, audiovisual, and signage solutions.
The unique condition of Lima, its relationship to the Pacific Ocean, with 40m-high cliffs defining the boundary between the city and the sea, was a starting point in the conception of this project. The infrastructure for learning is imagined as a ‘ne
Inserted into a cliff in Lima and echoing the surroundings through its materials, the memorial seeks to foster reconcitiation among Peruvians in the wake of decades of violence.
Peru experienced a period of economic prosperity starting around the year 2000, thanks above all to the boom in construction and the strong growth of the mining industry, which brought about a drastic transformation across the country, reaching both
It has been announced by the College of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago that the winner of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) – awarded every two years to the finest works of architecture carried out in t
One way to deal with the crisis has been through a change of scale. This, not necessarily through a shift to the world of the small. In fact it has sometimes been in the world of the large, even very large, that an alternative field has been found. A
The Irish firm of Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, operating since 1978 as Grafton Architects, has been much acclaimed for the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, a half-buried civic box of concrete – completed in the year 2008 – that strikes an i
Con motivo de la celebración de la IV edición de la Bienal Iberoamericana que ha tenido lugar recientemente en Lima, se ha presentado la segunda muestra de ‘Panorama Emergente’, una selección de trabajos de jóvenes arquitectos de España, Portugal y L
