Seeking a way to blend architecture into the natural environment, a pair of Ecuador-based designers invents a new modular building system.
Due the region’s mild climate, there’s no need for insulation, and “you don’t have to build in a perfect way,” says Sáez. “It’s like Adam and Eve, working in paradise. You almost don’t need architecture at all, just shelter from sun and rain. So you can build, and live, in a more basic manner, in a closer relationship with nature.” Nobody in Ecuador had constructed a house like this before. But with the help of models and section drawings, the builders quickly got the hang of it. They even developed some creative new tools to do the specialized work—attaching part of a pen to an airbrush, for example, in order to extract dust from holes drilled in the foundation. They then anchored steel rods in the holes using epoxy glue and lowered the concrete blocks onto the rods, stacking each in one of the four possible configurations.
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