Alfredo Brillembourg (Lead) with Jose Luis Leon, Jose Antonio Nunez, Neslon Ocando
The “Altazor House’, better known as the architect's own residence and studio, is an excellent case study of a twentieth-century building type: the single-family home. This house represents an architecture of the private domestic space and is in a small elite of residential buildings that architects design for themselves and has the potential to be its most inventive, and experimental.
Because of its small scale and limited site the family home needed to be thin and vertical and belongs to a category of a courtyard house. The residence design is a result of the dynamic between architecture and the Caracas climate, the Avila Mountain and the neighboring buildings.
The tropical modernist principle of integration with nature was naturally carried out in this house. The use of simple materials and natural color pigments help contrast the natural light with nature.
The strong relationship between the design of the exterior and the interiors of the urban house is remarkable. The architect designed spaces to overlap and integrate in the vertical loft plan.
This project also offers insight into a way of building with traditional technological details in the concrete structure and infill block work. The house represents the climate that the Caracas of today represents; ultimately, it is with modernity where Venezuela now finds its identity.
The Altazor house, like other urban houses in Latin America, the main façade of the house is aligned with the street and preserves the appearance of the wall as an element .It is a massive boundary with precise openings. Due to its austere, almost unfinished expression, the house would almost be unnoticed, except for its scale, which contrasts the rest of the buildings in the neighborhood.
The house is the dwelling of an architect and at the same time, its materials speak of an intimate nature that want to be intentionally anonymous.
