Casa Mirador is a lovely house surrounded by nature designed in 2021 by Rama Estudio and located in Pichincha, Ecuador.

Description
Background
In 2020, during the global Covid-19 pandemic, many families re-evaluated their way of living. The owners of this house maintained a ?nomadic? lifestyle so their stays in Ecuador were short and sporadic. The space they inhabited during these visits was a small 65m2 suite, in which they had a room with a full bathroom and a multifunctional space that included a “bedroom” for their two daughters. After the lockdown, the family decided that their stays should be longer and that the space should better allow them to perform their daily activities.
The commission
The specific request was to expand their existing house for social areas, include comfortable and independent bedrooms for the daughters, and take advantage of the view of the site. As a special requirement, the work had to start immediately and had to be built in no more than three months. The idea
“We thought about an industrially prefabricated piece that blends well with the environment and subtly sits on the ground, attaching itself to the existing construction.”
The natural environment is understood as an envelope of the building which is placed over the slope overlooking the valley. There is no soil disturbance nor vegetation degradation.
The new piece is manufactured and installed quickly while the intervention in the existing b...