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Courtyard Reform

 

Team: Juan Tohme

Collaborator: Candela Botta

Client: Private

This renovation project is conceived as a single continuous environment where interior spaces and the courtyard operate as one unified domestic landscape. The intervention dissolves the traditional boundary between inside and outside, allowing daily life to unfold across both conditions seamlessly.

A continuous horizontal plane organizes kitchen, dining, and living areas, extending visually and spatially toward the patio through full-height sliding glass panels. When open, these elements transform the courtyard into an active room of the house; when closed, transparency maintains visual continuity and natural light.

Material choices reinforce this spatial unity. Warm wood surfaces, neutral finishes, and a restrained palette are used consistently across interior and exterior zones, ensuring that the transition between spaces is perceived as gradual rather than abrupt. Indirect linear lighting further emphasizes horizontality and continuity, supporting a calm and coherent atmosphere.

The courtyard is no longer a secondary outdoor space but an integral component of the interior experience—introducing vegetation, light, and air into the core of the dwelling.

This renovation redefines domestic space through continuity, precision, and restraint, proposing an architecture where interior and exterior merge into a single, fluid environment.

Project Type

Reform

 

Date

2022

 

Location

Quito, Ecuador

Images

Juan Tohme

ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE

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