Avoiding Disneyfication
Our design process is taking us around the world as we flip through photos taken on our travels, scour books and surf the internet for architectural ideas that guide us in our own design.
The House in Honda, Columbia (more images here) designed by Guillermo Arias and Luis Cuartas is one precedent to which we keep returning.
The living room pictured here demonstrates the kind of open, breezy feeling we are working to create in our house. The indoor/outdoor space with vistas of the garden invoke the idea of lazy afternoons dozing in a hammock.
The building clearly has a lot of history, but the architects did not attempt to recreate an idealized colonial vision that never existed. The spaces have been patched, cleaned up and modified for contemporary uses. The past is still present, but it happily coexists with modern times.
