Articles by Andreas Luco

Next to a stud farm, amid a walnut grove and situated on a hill, stands the Botafogo house, located in Romeral, Maule Region, Chile. Built entirely of wood, this house was inspired by the old sheds of southern Chile, while adapting to the needs of contemporary living and the client’s requirements. Among other things, it needed to be both welcoming and practical, accommodating either a single occupant or, on occasion, a whole family with children and grandchildren.

Miranda Palmeto is a productive house through the mixed-use of neighborhood-scale. It is part of a series of architectural interventions aimed at enhancing the Palmeto (a collection of palms) at the Cholul Nursery, a 2.5-hectare green space with several decades of history dedicated to producing and selling tropical plants. Located in the heart of Cholul, a Mayan / Colonial community within the municipality of Merida in southeastern Mexicothis, the project seeks to bring value to the site and integrate it within its cultural and environmental context.

What happens if, instead of focusing on the form as a solid, as a construction and physicality, attention is placed on the gap, on the form of the void that matter itself leaves free? Absence gives meaning to presence …By working on the sensation of being there, the aim is to directly give the viewer the option to continue and partially complete the void left by the apparent absence with their own human presence.