This building is called Sentidos by Felipe Escudero. It is a bar located in a 1980’s house in the traditional neighborhood La Foresta in Quito. The bar was designed to impress the customers and also express the beauty of the house. The wall was painted in black to make the dark background to highlight the beautiful bar and wooden floor. The bar was made with the combination of wood and steel, therefore, it glows with the lights. To have a dark background would be difficult to serve and walk around, so the architect did a good job in using neon lights and warm spotlights to guild the paths but still keep the dark theme. The bar gives the cozy feeling and makes people want to come after a long day of work/study.

citation:

“Casa El Quinche.” ESTUDIO FELIPE ESCUDERO, felipeescudero.com/casa-el-quinche/45c58s4x1vkv92g1oqs6w9o15zw6zq.

this house is located at a traditional residential area in Gofo, Kyoto. the house faces a busy street of 4m in width. the backside stand 45m line up the on the east side. The holes are lined up on a cross shape. the light that penetrates into the architecture always moves and never stays. It is a symbolic spectacle. A light that goes through the hole is projected in a circle shape, moves unlimited, and never stays. Occasionally, it disappears, and it appears. the purpose of doing so is the create cal interior space. The one-storied house lifted to the sky makes “two outside spaces placed among three inside spaces”. The wind and the light of nature gather from the sky into two outside void spaces. And that extends to three inside spaces. The street front space is the workshop for the crest making. The middle space is the living room. And the backspace is the bedroom. The gaps between those three spaces are designed as “void”. people hang out at those 2 voids, they walk around circle holes. people move with the movement of dramatic light.

Rose Etherington | 12 October 2009 17 comments. (2011, September 12). MON Factory/House by EASTERN Design Office. Retrieved from https://www.dezeen.com/2009/10/12/mon-factoryhouse-by-eastern-design-office/

this house is designed by Japanese architects EASTERN Design Office with slits instead of traditional window that no architecture has thought about before. this house is located at an old city in Japan, where many private houses. There are 60 long slashes in the building’s concrete exterior walls, some are straight and some and angled. the width splits screen inner privacy from view from outside but bring 60 light into the house . one of two narrow frontages faces a street and the other faces a river Glass is set straight into grooves in the concrete without window frames. the slits remind us people of old experience in memory with poetic scenery. it looks like if a stream of light through Fusuma in Japanese architecture or a stream if light from skylight of ancient stone architecture. interior wall are made of wood to easily removed and reinstalling if the building needed to be changed in the future. This architecture has a silent ambiance just like in the midst of solitary jar and a poetic clearness as like in an endless partiality. The slits hold the promise of an innovative design method of architecture.At the dawn, watery light comes into the house through the slits. That makes the entire room bright faintly. At 9:30AM,sequence of the feeble light that reflects to header of slits appears. At 10:30AM, the sunlight pierces through angled slits at first. At 11:00AM,the sunlight pierces through all slits. The sunlight through the slit and the reflected light on the header of the slit project the stripe of V type to the long corridor. If you saw the repetition of this edgy light, you might feel as if time of 11:00AM has stopped. In as much as ten minutes, the reflected light on the header disappears. The shape of the light that the slit makes changes from V type into one stripe

Rose Etherington | 10 October 2009 27 comments. (2019, July 1). Slit House by EASTERN Design Office. Retrieved from https://www.dezeen.com/2009/10/10/slit-house-by-eastern-design-office/

This building is called Casa El Quinche designed by Filipe Escudero. It is a nice house with the felexibility to be used as an event center. Different that other buildings from the same architect, this house has a big gardens and is oriented in a way that has the best views of the valley and receive sunlight. The concrete wall was built by hand, giving it a nice textures in the surface. The house has big windows and door, giving the apperance of being small when people first look at it, but when go inside, the house is actually bigger. By the design and materials, the house gives the feeling of warm and friendly, and relaxing. I think it’s a good place for a family to live. I really like the design and the views, but to me, it would be nicer if the wall was not made entirely from concrete.

citation:

“Casa El Quinche.” ESTUDIO FELIPE ESCUDERO, felipeescudero.com/casa-el-quinche/45c58s4x1vkv92g1oqs6w9o15zw6zq.

this building is called Casa Trebol. Located on the high altitudes of Andes Mountain with extreme weather, the building was designed with irregular shape to make sure all parts of the interior and exterior will receive sunlight. The design follows the traditional latino-american style, the results is a singular habitat where each room uniquely fragments and frames the surrounding landscape with openings on the walls that help appreciate the environment. This building has clover leaf shape that would look irregular at first, but when people get into the house and have a look at the surrounding, they will appreciate the design which gives the best views to the environment and landscape.

citation:

“Casa Trébol.” ESTUDIO FELIPE ESCUDERO, felipeescudero.com/casa-trebol/l5wtwbdlvg5xd4x4kgpjsb3efwe3uy.

When I was growing up, most of my family lived in Dallas, except my immediate family. We lived all over but mostly in Colorado. This meant when I would come see my grandparents, I would fly. Since I wasn’t in Dallas that often, when I was here we would go sight seeing. This caused me to see reunion tower for the first time. At this point, I had no idea what it was, but I thought it was really cool.

A few years pass, and I kinda forget about it, because its kind of just there, but I see it again. We are driving back from visiting my grandma in Waco, TX. This time it is at night and it lights up. While that it cool already, the lights can change. This is a completely new aspect of a building to me.

For my best friends 18th birthday, a group of us went there. This was a really cool and different experience. I had been in similar places in other cities like the Willis Tower in Chicago and on the Empire state building in NYC,  but never in Dallas. Since I now lived in Dallas, this didn’t occur to me as something I could do. When we went up there, it was an experience I couldn’t even imagine.

This building is called Techitos warehouse in Ecuador. It was designed by architect Felipe Escudero. The design is characterized by gable roofs and geometry bounded by sharp cuts at it edges. The office is in smaller warehouses. the vaulted spaces make people enter the house feel like they have entered a gothic episode. The interior lights were designed to look like a sculpture, it makes the interior part of the building has the three dimensions feeling. The guard house at the front looks like a baby when compare to the main structure, which make the whole building looks like a family. In my opinion, this building looks very nice. It was designed as a work place, but also gives the feelings of warm and modernized.

citation:

“Techitos.” ESTUDIO FELIPE ESCUDERO, felipeescudero.com/techitos/qtab2uv9pogvxcrlao4p73gnzs06op.

this picture is the apartment in Shiaga Prefecture, Japan called On The Corner was designed by EASTER DESIGN OFFICE. This located at a busy residential area as well as an industrial area. there are so many popular drinking area where many bar and restaurants for people to hang out and relax. This apartment is very sharp and thin. it looks like it can literally cut you up if you accidentally hit it on the corner. From a distance, it looks like a toy box where kids could enter. it is a triangular building configured by the square element. The wall is made of blue square stones, concrete, glass. There are seven apartment in this clock, each one has one 13m2 bedroom, a prefabricated bathroom, a kitchen system and a open living room. the elevation of this building has the shape of the triangle plot. the edge of the triangular pyramid is like a tip of a boat as it is escaping from town. it seems as this illusion of the apartment deceives people to obscure their eyesight and feel invited to another world.

Frearson, A. (2012, August 15). On The Corner by EASTERN Design Office. Retrieved from https://www.dezeen.com/2011/10/25/on-the-corner-by-eastern-design-office/

Last year over spring break, my family, a friend of mine, and I all took a trip to Universal Studios. While every ride and attraction is fascinating and neat to experience, especially because of how they make everything you see in films come to life, what captured me the most was the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. While I personally have only seen short segments of one or two of the movies, and never read the books, even though I was not a super fan like a lot of people in the attraction, I was still in awe. Being there felt like being in a different world almost, or at least, definitely not in Orlando, FL. It felt like we were on a movie set or maybe even in some mystical place. My favorite individual structure was the castle, shown in the picture above, but even that does not capture how massive and magnificent it really is. The magnificence carried on as we went into the castle, as every single detailed was catered to.