Articles by Benjamin Zapico

The house is located in the Nuñez neighborhood, in a lot between party walls sixteen meters deep. The house takes the entire length of the lot and is structured around two patios.  The access courtyard resolves the transition with the street and the backyard resolves the lighting and ventilation conditions of the spaces in the quiet part of the building. The arrangement of the patios, facing but out of date, and a wooden piece of furniture, organize the social spaces on the ground floor.

In the southwest of the city of Puebla, Mexico, at the foot of the Atoyac River, lies La Carmela, one of two hydroelectric plants that provided service to the Textile Factory El Mayorazgo in the early 20th century, built by Engineer Carlos Mastretta Fecit.

In the southwest of the city of Puebla, Mexico, at the foot of the Atoyac River, lies La Carmela, one of two hydroelectric plants that provided service to the Textile Factory El Mayorazgo in the early 20th century, built by Engineer Carlos Mastretta Fecit.

The development of the Archipelago Author Houses project, which includes the construction of twelve homes designed by twelve architecture studios, also includes the construction of a small pavilion in the forest of Estancia La Paz.

Tropical pile-dwellings and floating greenhouse for floodable communities. The floating orchard is conceived as micro floating and piled equipment that reflects on new possibilities of food production, adaptable for floodable communities, revaluing local and innovative techniques to respond to the effects of climate change, as well as the development of sustainable-resilient cities and communities.

The house is the main construction of a system of interconnected elements with the landscape that were planned to colonize a territory of five hectares in a rural area of the Maldonado department, Uruguay.

Casa Duna is located on a flat terrain, without views, and exposed to both the north wind and the main road of the La Boca fund in Tunquén. It appears to the environment as a tapered body devoid of openings.