Estrategias proyectuales en la obra residencial de “Ribadeneira y Carrión”. Estudio de la vivienda en cuatro escalas

Abstract

Ribadeneira y Carrión” is an architecture office that began its work in the seventies and eighties in Quito - Ecuador. His work has been recognized with several national and international awards. The objective of this research is to identify the design strategies used in his residential work carried out during the mentioned years. This research emphasizes the analysis of a housing unit for each studied project. Four projects are analyzed. Each one represents a different scale developed by the office: Casa Carrión (singlefamily home), Mosquera Complex (housing complex), San Roque Building (mid-rise building) and Kouros Building (high-rise building). Up to now, there are records of their work in specialized magazines and books, but there is no detailed analysis. This research fills this gap, because it is the first exhaustive study carried out on their projects. In this way, the investigation reveals the strategies where are prioritized the views, the compact volumes that are implanted on topographic platforms, the highly functional distributions and several other aspects that have been revealed. Two qualitative methodologies applied in different stages are used. First, for the selection of study cases, is used the method of Hermida M.A. (2012) in their research “Formal values in traditional rural housing of the 20th century in the province of Azuay”. Then, the (Re) drawing is applied as a method for the identification of project strategies based on the guidelines of the book “The modern project. Research guidelines”, by Gastón C. and Rovira T. (2007).