House in the Woods / Espinoza Carvajal Arquitectos - Interior Photography, Wood, Beam© Silueta Amarilla+SAJAESCA

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House in the Woods / Espinoza Carvajal Arquitectos - Exterior Photography, Wood© Silueta Amarilla+SAJAESCA

Text description provided by the architects. Leaving behind the urban fervor of Quito requires a slow decantation, a change of pace where asphalt finally yields to the vegetation of the dry steppe. In the Guayllabamba valley, architecture does not seek to conquer the land but to coexist with it; the House in the Forest arises from this premise, not as an imposed structure, but as a device for inhabiting time. The project is best understood under the logic of the “nest”: a structure that weaves intergenerational memories and, instead of settling heavily, decides to levitate over a landscape that it barely disturbs.

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