classrooms, workshops and faculty offices

location:  piura, peru

client:  universidad de piura

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. Crousse

project team: d. leininger

built surface:  9500 m2

completion:  2016

photographer:  c. palma  

prizes: Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2018 / Obra del Año 2019 (ODA award) Archdaily / XVIII Bienal de Arquitectura del Perú - 2018 - Hexágono de Oro

publications: C3 407 - 2020 / Arquitectura Viva 211 - 2019 / Detail 3.2019 - 2019 / En Blanco 26 - 2019 / Plot 44 - 2018 / Arquine 85 - 2018 / Summa+ 154 - 2016 / Casabella 868 - 2016

The facility is conceived as an extension of the arid forest of Carob trees that characterize the northern Peruvian desert, providing shade in a hot and dry climate.

A new generic classroom and faculty offices in the University of Piura campus is the opportunity to give the students the needed space for informal learning between classes, potentiating wide open circulations protected from sunshine and glare.

A constellation of 11 buildings is linked by a system of ramps and alleys, courtyards, and gardens within a square perimeter of 70 x 70m. Five typical units are assembled within this square to produce a great variety of open but protected spaces for students and faculty members, with facilities like informal reading spaces, cafes, meeting rooms, and reception.

archeological site museum

location:  paracas, peru

client:  Peruvian Ministry of Culture

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. Crousse

project team: r. apolaya

built surface:  1170 m2

competition: 2008 - first prize

building completion:  2012

opening to the public:  2016

photographers:  erieta attali, jp crousse  

prizes:  Woman of the Year Award for Sandra Barclay / Leading Culture Destination - LCD Award / Best Architectural Design Prize - Bienal Panamericana de Quito BAQ 2016  /  XII Bienal del Perú - first prize - culture building

published in:  Arquitectura Viva 211 - 2019 / Architectural Review 1449 - 2018 / A+U 568 - 2018 / C3 392 - 2017 / Casabella 867 - 2016 / Summa+ 154 - 2016

An archaeological museum must find the delicate balance between heritage conservation exposed and release to the public. A site museum, as the Paracas, acquires the additional challenge of having to integrate into the landscape that was the cradle of this culture, which is now part of the most important biological and landscaping reserve of the Peruvian coastal desert.

The project is implemented practically on the ruins of what was its predecessor, destroyed by an earthquake in 2007. It retakes its rectangular geometry and compactness. A crack or flaw breaks in this volume, separating the museum and conservation spaces from the ones dedicated to interaction and learning (workshops, meeting rooms, and services). The different accesses to these spaces are located along this "crack".

A seemingly contradictory hybridization between the Precolumbian labyrinthine organization, and the fluid, dynamic contemporary space, is explored in the interior.

The environmental harshness of the Paracas Desert and the preservation requirements of the collection are solved with an "environmental regulator device", that defines the architectural volumes and spaces. This device allows providing controlled natural and artificial light, natural ventilation and cooling, and act as a transition space between exhibition rooms. Its geometry reinterprets the motifs of the Paracas textiles, which were its most outstanding technological and artistic expressions.

The museum is built entirely with salt-resistant reddish pozzolan cement. The exposed concrete and polished cement that constitute its materiality, blends with the neighboring red dunes. The patina left by builders in the polished cement gives the museum a ceramic look that resembles the pre-Columbian ceramics that are exposed inside.

Cultural center for the reconciliation of peruvian people, exhibition spaces, research center and auditorium

location:  lima, peru

client:  presidential commission for the place of remembrance - peruvian ministry of culture

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

built surface:  4896 m2

project team:  p. shimabukuro, r. aguirre, s. cilloniz, c. fernandez, e. zambrano

competition:  2010 – first prize

completion:  2013

opening to the public:  2015

fotographer: c. palma

awards:

oscar niemeyer prize - red de bienales de américa latina - quito 2016 / hexágono de oro prize - 16th bienal de arquitectura del peru, 2014 / mies crown hall americas prize - nominated project - IIT, chicago 2014 / cica award for latin-american architecture - international committee of architectural critics - buenos aires 2013 / premio bienal - américa latina - XIV bienal internacional de arquitectura de buenos aires, 2013

Published in: En Blanco 26 - 2019 / Arquine 87 - 2019 / Arquitectura Viva 151 - 2017 / Summa+ 154 - 2016 / Casabella 844 - 2014 / PLOT special edition 3 2013 / AV Proyectos 040 2010

A presidential commission led by Nobel prized Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa launched in 2010 a national architectural competition for the construction of the Place of Memory, a place where people from diverse political and social origins work together to reach a possible reconciliation between the Peruvian people, following a bloody conflict initiated in 1980 by the terrorist movement, Shining Path, counting more than 70000 dead in twenty years.

The jury was conformed by Kenneth Frampton, Rafael Moneo, Francesco dal Co, Wiley Ludeña, and José G Bryce.

The project is carefully inserted into the existing territorial logic of cliffs and ravines that characterizes the bay of Lima, thus merging harmoniously with it. By doing this, the building evokes memory in a much broader significance: the memory of landscape in its physical configuration and materiality, rather than dealing only with violence and political memory, which is the role of the permanent exhibition.

office building, government facilities, 500-seat auditorium and public square

location:          moquegua, peru

client:               region of moquegua

design team:    s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: m.i. pineda

built surface:    14 500 m2

competition: 2013 - wining scheme

completion: 2018

prizes: Premio Arquitectura y Ciudad 2020 - CAPECO | XVIII Bienal de Arquitectura del Perú - 2018 - Primer Premio Edificio Público.

An ambitious project by the regional government of Moquegua, a Southern region of Peru, proposes a new civic center that joins the regional headquarters to a commercial street mall, a public school, and a municipal sports center.

The regional headquarters project is concentrated in a compact building, creating enough space for a civic public square that wasn’t considered in the competition brief. The circular form of the building refers to the unique geography of the region, with Cerro Baul as its geographical and heritage landmark, being the place where the first ancient cultures were established in the South West of Peru.

private home

location: cusco, peru

client: private

design team: s. barclay – j.p. Crousse

project team: T. Cigarini, A. Otero

built surface: 245 m2

completion: 2018

photographer: c. palma

prizes: Wallpaper Design Awards 2020 - best colour match

publications: Oris 123 - 2020 / The Plan 123 - 2020 / Wallpaper feb.2020

The sacred valley of Urubamba distinguishes itself because of its numerous snow-peaks, which were considered sacred by the Incas. One of them, the Pitusiray, which dominates above Huayoccari, is the location where the house is situated. Huayoccari stands at 2,950m above sea level, in a special place within the valley, giving the impression of being in the center of a circle of surrounding mountains, and not in a linear valley, which is in fact the case.

The initial project included two sister houses that form a coherent unity, one of which has been built. The project does not refer to the traditional architecture of the valley, but instead the mountains which surround it. The conception of the project focuses on the careful transformation of the topography and the creation of a series of terraces and a roof. The sloping land is treated with stone made terraces and a platform which generates a horizontal ground for the house to be installed on. The traditional gable roof is decomposed in two planes adopting the pitch of the surrounding mountains and thus generating spatial compressions that frame the low valley and spatial dilatations that lead towards the Pitusiray mountain.

The inclination of the roof allows a passive thermal control system to be generated within the interior of the house. The roof receives the day´s first sun rays that warm the internal living spaces for the morning. In the afternoon, the roof, covered in stone, protects the house from the strong sunshine. Its thermic inertia enables the accumulated heat to propagate during the night, a period of time during which the temperature drops due to the altitude where the house is situated.

restaurant

location: san isidro, lima

client: grupo crosland

design team: s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: a. otero

built surface: 413 m2

completion: 2020

photographer: c. palma

The task was to create a restaurant to represent Lima's uniqueness, with elements that could be replicated in other establishments. Our view is that these aspects should focus on the spatial conditions created by Lima's unique climate, the typical introspection of colonial and pre-Hispanic residences, and the regulation of the interior lighting conditions.

An inner world was created with five modules forming an intermediate space. A large, fluid space emerges at eye level, similar to the living area in the A4 House. The intermediate space is alternately compressed and expanded by the asymmetry of these modules, producing the quality of an indoor space despite being an open-air, exterior area.

Each module has a differentiated use and a way of experiencing the act of eating in a restaurant: the first comprises a food store and areas for eating a quick snack, the second is furnished with long tables for a communal eating experience, the third has a more classic arrangement of individual tables for up to four diners, the fourth has a bar and high tables with stools, and the fifth is a private space separated from the other areas. Depending on the time of day, some modules are busier than others, while the intermediate spaces articulate these distinctions with additional spaces to eat or linger.

15-unit mixed typology apartment building

location:  miraflores, lima

client:  EF contratistas

design team:  s. Barclay – j.p. crousse

assistant:  m.i. pineda

built surface:  8125 m2

completion:  2017

photographer:  c. palma – j. solano

The building extends the greenery of an adjacent park through a common vertical garden that emerges from a delicate set of Peruvian dark marble screens. The orientation-specific facades go from mostly opaque in the street side to mostly open facing the park. A rational plan provides 15 apartments of different sizes ranging from one to six bedrooms.

publications: Arquitectura Viva 211 - 2019 / En Blanco 26 - 2019 / Plot 44 - 2018 / ARQ 97 - 2017

seaside townhouse

location:  punta hermosa, lima, peru

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: a. castro - j.m. chinchay

built surface: 940 m2

completion:  2013

photographer: c. palma

publications: GA Houses 164 - 2019 / GA Document 150 - 2019 / Summa+ 140 - 2015

The traditional beach town of Punta Hermosa, 45km south of Lima, is the scenery for this summer house, located in a consolidated urban area. The porch, a traditional space in Peruvian coastal houses, is taken as a founding element for the project. The social area is transformed into an outdoor, shaded space, framing views on the Pacific Ocean. This large, contemporary porch is conceived as an interior landscape, which relates to the exterior one to redefine each other.

4 apartments in a historic district

location:  lima, peru

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. Crousse – j. puig

project team: p. diaz, f. tuesta

built surface:  767 m2

completion:  2021

photographer:  c. palma  

prizes: nominated project - Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2024

publications: L’oasi come casa: cinque case colletive di Barclay&Crousse a Lima, lettera ventidue (2024)

Four friends decided to jointly build a small building in the historic district of Barranco using self-construction.

The project proposes an ample exterior space between the public domain and the intimacy of the apartments, taking advantage of the complex and contradictory heritage regulations. This space is conceived as a large courtyard and a window to the neighborhood. The street facade appears incomplete from the outside, without windows in the openings. Inside, each apartment has a large terrace that crosses the in-between space. Thus, the terraces are also the intermediate spaces where the condominium owners meet and socialize. On the first floor, the free space is used for parking vehicles, a cost-saving measure that eliminates the need for a basement and ensures efficient use of resources.

The intermediate space allows one apartment per level to be installed behind the street façade, which meets regulatory requirements. The apartments' facades are fully glazed to maximize natural light and ventilation.

201 housing units, restaurants, pools, surf services, wellness center, parking

location:  san bartolo, peru

client:  octagon group

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. Crousse

project team: w. collazos, t. cigarini

built surface:  42 450 m2

completion:  2021

photographer:  c. palma  

publications: L’oasi come casa: cinque case colletive di Barclay&Crousse a Lima, lettera ventidue (2024)

Because of its proximity to Lima, San Bartolo sea resort is slowly being transformed into a permanent town. The OR complex is one of the first residential operations designed to respond to this demand.

It offers public services not yet offered to permanent residents, such as a public grocery store, restaurant, and services for surfers (a very popular sport in the area). It also offers specific services for condominium owners, such as swimming pools, saunas, and gymnasiums.

The project, located on a narrow, irregular site perpendicular to the sea, proposes a large garden and pedestrian access to the beach. The services are distributed along the garden, taking advantage of the natural topography to place the most playful ones on the cliff overlooking the beach and offering balcony views of the ocean. Most apartments are duplexes with two orientations, allowing cross-ventilation and lateral views over the ocean.

urban house

location: lima, peru

client: private

design team: s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: M. Montañez, F. Quiñones

built surface: 1042 m2

completion: 2019

photographer: c. palma

The house, inserted in a typical urban plot, heightens the contrast between daily living spaces and private bedroom areas. The living spaces are conceived as an indoor landscape within the mandatory perimeter walls, developing a continuous space the size of the plot. The bedroom areas are scattered in three volumes bridging the living spaces, connected by glazed walkways. These bridges define a sequence of roofed and open spaces, creating ambiguous spaces in the living areas, where the distinction between indoor and outdoor spaces is completely blurred.

seasonal house

location:  cañete, peru

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

built surface: 172 m2

completion:  2003

photographer: jp crousse

awards:  

mies crown hall americas prize - nominated project - emerging architecture - iit, chicago 2014

5th padis prize - padis de cristal al major diseño - apap/confiep/indecopi/produce/prompex - lima, peru, 2005

IV bienal iberoamericana de arquitectura - accésit a la mejor obra construida - lima, 2004

record houses award - excellence in design - architectural record, ny, usa 2004

ar+d emerging architecture prize – highly commended project - architectural review, uk, 2003

The project seeks to create the necessary intimacy to live in the desert and to 'domesticate' it without denying or betraying its characteristics. We started by conceiving a pure solid which would appear to have always been there. During the design process, this theoretical solid was "excavated", removing matter bit-by-bit, just as archaeologists would remove sand to discover the pre-Columbian ruins in this region. The resulting exterior spaces merge with interior spaces in a continuous fluid space within an enclosure that pushes the ambiguity between interior and exterior spaces to its limits.

4-unit seasonal houses

location:  cañete, peru

clients:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team:  v. del solar, r. aguirre

built surface:  917 m2

completion:  2009

photographer: c. palma

awards:  wallpaper design awards 2012 -  best private house - shortlisted project

Located on the edge of a cliff, six houses built over 6 years share a common typology. This complex constitutes an unusual design laboratory on how to create “indoor exteriors” and reconcile intimacy with vastness.

From the ocean, the houses define platforms as extruded volumes emerging from the cliff. From the desert, they seem to be excavated on the sand. An artificial beach, defined by an enclosure, contains long and narrow pools that visually connect between them: pools become ludic spaces where neighbors can relate with each other, and protect the bedrooms located underneath from the setting sun. Two cracks give room for open stairs that connect the artificial beaches to the lower level of bedrooms.

Seasonal house

location:  marina lancheros, ancon, peru

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team:  e. zambrano, b. ruiz

built surface:  547 m2

completion:  2017

photographer:  c. palma

Exhibited in: GA Houses Project 2017 - GA Gallery, Tokyo

Published in: Arquitectura Viva 211 - 2019 / En Blanco 26 - 2019 / GA Houses 162 - 2019 / GA Houses 151 - 2017 / Architectural Review - 2017 / Summa+ 154 - 2016

The house is conceived as a soil extrusion rather than an object in the landscape. Framing views is not a priority, but the creation of a microcosm that allows understanding its unique features by revealing its hidden qualities.

The house breaks up in different volumes that create platforms for life. Four platforms are created: one for cars and services, two sheltering the bedrooms and offering open planted surfaces above, and one dedicated to social activities, covered by a series of concrete vaults that anchor the space underneath to the ground. By cantilevering one of them, the house seems an unfinished structure, as a temporary layer laid upon many other ones defining the landscape.

2 town houses

location:  lima, peru

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: j. chinchay

built surface:  915 m2

completion:  2012

photographer: jp crousse

Two houses are piled up in a narrow urban plot facing an olive tree public garden, and give the impression of a single urban house to relate to neighboring residences. The quality of interior spaces is privileged while framing breathtaking urban views of the magnificent historical olive grove in Lima.

retail - restaurant

location:  san isidro, lima

client: yes perú sa

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team:  s. nichelle, p. shimabukuro

built surface:  1120 m2

completion:  2014

photographer: Juan Solano

The program of three luxury shops in a wooded road with quiet traffic is the trigger to create an urban pedestrian corner, bringing together the buildings that compose it in a generous public space. The receding volumes create a large urban space equipped with benches and green areas.

The building decomposes into three exempt and glazed volumes, conceived as big urban displays contained by a frame of exposed concrete. These big shop windows double towards the interior of the area, generating double fronts for the shops. Cracks between these volumes mark the entrance to the three shops.

What usually is the "back-room" transforms into a succession of courts defined by the irregular limit of the lot. Those “back-rooms”, accessible from the street, generate a luminous and attractive back for every shop. In this succession of courtyards, events can be organized. They also give access to the café-restaurant, which is located on the third level. The wall that defines these courts has a treatment with polychromy of grays, generating a surprising exterior space in contrast with the more traditional urban space.

urban residence

location:  lima, peru

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: j.m. chinchay

built surface: 1235 m2

completion:  2010

photographer: c. palma

The project explores the possibility of anti-monumentality for a contemporary palace. The typical program used in a wealthy suburban residence is here used as a pretext to explore three main themes: the precinct, intimacy, and the promenade architecturale. These themes, when combined, will result in a small house whose real dimensions will only be revealed by moving through a route across a polycentric space in time. A large vaulted cover retains and stabilizes the dynamic space of the house in the dining and living rooms.

office building

location:  lima, peru

client:  flat Inmobiliaria

authors: barclay & crousse + uastudio

design team:  s. barclay – n. boljsakov - j.p. crousse -  b. miller

assistants: paulo shimabukuro, tamy noguchi

built surface: 12 500 m2

completion:  2015

photographer: j. solano

A too-small plot for an office building is the opportunity for the project. An exoskeleton is the only way to fit the needed underground parking.

The structure becomes a façade, and the narrow avenues and vertical proportions of the building give place to a double-height, three-dimensional grid. Inspired in kinetic art, the grid changes the perception of its geometry with pedestrian movement.

In the interior, generous common spaces compensate the little office units for start-up companies.

10-unit mixed typology apartment building

location:  san isidro, lima

client:  mota - engil

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team:  j.m. chinchay

built surface:  3760 m2

competition:  2011 - first prize

completion:  2015

photographer: j. solano

The building adapts to a heterogeneous skyline and faces a magnificent olive tree historical garden. The apartments, most of the duplex, open thoroughly to the views, protected by a wooden sliding screen. An urban square with a centennial Ponciana tree is created and serves as a transitional space between the public domain and the intimacy of the apartments.

offices and warehouse

location:  lima, peru

client:  dentaid group

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: Fernando Quiñones

built surface: 1790 m2

completion:  2013

The project is located in an emerging industrial zone on the outskirts of Lima. The project aims to give a strong image for the company and protecting offices from a bad orientation of a narrow plot. A set of louvers is painted red and blue to produce a kinetic experience from both the street and the offices.

The entrance hall expands vertically in a multiple-high void along with a geometric pattern made with traditional tiles. All the meeting rooms and rest areas are situated here, while the offices face the street and have a narrow balcony between the glazing and the louvers.

8-unit flat apartment building

location:  san borja, lima

client:  sedic sac

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team:  a. zamudio

built surface:  618 m2

completion:  2014

photographer: j.p. crousse

A typical commercial housing project in the suburbs of Lima is the opportunity to rethink the relationship between a common building and the city, and the relation between a typical department and its environment, using as an only device the urban loggia.

The urban loggia allows creating the necessary thickness to mediate between domesticity and urban presence, in an urban dismantled context and with a conventional housing type settled on a unique floor. The project system, established on a classic scheme of a raised basement and an alteration of the domestic scale with the double heights, is reinforced by the strong presence of rustic exposed concrete.

146-unit social student dormitories

location:  montreuil, france

client:  sopic / town of montreuil

design team: s. barclay - j.p. crousse - g. roustan – j.m. viste

project team: a. casemajor

urban design:  a. siza, m. corajoud, c. devillers, l. beaudouin

built surface:  4665 m2

completion:  2009

The building is at the heart of the urban project for downtown Montreuil, designed by Alvaro Siza, Michel Corajoud, Christian Devillers, and Laurent Beaudouin. The volumes, simple and clear, emphasize the verticality of the nearby buildings and the theatre. The facades are perforated with large windows that unite four dorm windows. In this way, the scale of the building is purposely altered to match the abstract language of the theatre. One single type of window is used to adapt to the different program specifications, giving a strong unity to the building.

vertical extension of an historical landmark

location:  lima, peru

client:  inversiones alternas

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. Crousse

project team: m. apolaya

built surface:  2332 m2

completion:  2012

photographer: j.l. dieguez

award:  concurso nacional de calidad arquitectónica 2007 - first prize - colegio de arquitectos del perú

publications: World Architecture 329 - 2017 / Summa+ 135 - 2014 /

The original building, designed by Emilio Harth-Terré and declared Historic Monument, was conceived as a massive volume that has two stories but appears to have a single, massive level. The project works with the opposite strategy: tripartition of the two-floor extension to reduce the scale and avoid competing with the central role given to the original façade. Treatment of the new façade, apparently ethereal, is conceived in a random sequence. The glass screen captures natural light and creates shadows to help create a rhythm that merges with surrounding buildings. Inside, metallic footbridges cross the patio to link the escape staircases and become informal learning places.

transformation of andré malraux’s first “maison de la culture” into an art museum

location:  le havre, france

client:  city of le havre

design team:  l. beaudouin - e. beaudouin - s. barclay - j.p. crousse

project team:  a. purpuri, l. carrara

built surface:  5720 m2

competition:  1994 – first prize

completion:  1999

photographer: j.m. monthiers

award:  équerre d’argent – nominated project - le moniteur, paris 1999

The refurbishing of Malraux’s first Maison de la Culture into a museum is taken as an opportunity to push forward the original ideas of the building, designed by a team led by Guy Lagneau and Jean Prouvé. A system of light filters over the façade, the creation of a real natural-lighted interior volume, the work over space fluidity, and the evolution of the museum its art collection.

All the public services of the museum are grouped to reinforce the connection between the exhibition, the city, and the ocean, as well as all the public spaces, have a view towards the permanent collection.

location:  lima, peru

client:  club de regatas "lima"

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. Crousse

project team: d. torres

built surface:  633 m2

completion:  2015

photographer:  c. palma  

The restaurant is located in a traditional rowing club in Lima, founded in 1875, at the end of the sailboat pier. The project is inspired by the club’s first building, a steel and wooden structure painted in marine white. The dining space opens thoroughly to the sea view and can be transformed into an open terrace in summer by pivoting frameless glazing. The roof is punctuated with limean traditional skylights called “teatinas” to ensure homogeneous lighting and ventilation.

19-unit mixed-typology apartment building

location:  lima, peru

client:  global home

design team:  o. gonzález moix - s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: e. bartra - s. cilloniz

built surface: 5760 m2

completion:  2014

photographer:  j. solano

The mixed typology program for this building creates a series of different apartments within a single logic, around and bridging a central planted courtyard.  Duplex and flats, with narrow or large spans, imbricate and fix the rule for the street façade, while maintaining the same logic around the courtyard.  The different balconies create a spatial transition between the apartments and the street, directing the gaze to a lateral ocean view.

5-unit apartment building and art showroom

location:  lima, peru

client:  CIECOSA

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team:  v. del solar, j.m. chinchay

built surface:  2 450 m2

competition:  2008 – first prize

completion:  2010

photographer:  m. llona

award:  concurso nacional de calidad arquitectónica 2010 - second prize - colegio de arquitectos del perú

The project is located on the edge of an urban park.

Vertical glazed louvers direct the views to the park, allowing each apartment to have a privileged relationship with nature.

The building features an atypical duplex with an art exhibit space, conceived as a "house in the park" with a double-height space and a private garden, while the other 4 apartments pile up over it. The floor plan scheme enables great freedom in the use of social spaces while keeping them separate from the bedrooms.

office building

location:  malakoff, paris, france

client:  bleecker group

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse - p. tarabusi

built surface: 3320 m2

completion:  2003

photographers:  j.m. monthiers – j.p. crousse

The project is located at the edge of the Boulevard Périphérique, the beltway that surrounds Paris. The building fits into the urban grid of low-rise houses of the Malakoff neighborhood and exploits its diagonal situation from the beltway. Two opposite images are revealed to the beltway users: an opaque and vertical shape from the West, a transparent and horizontal shape from the East. The simplicity of shapes, the proportions of volumes, and a reduced range of materials allow a clear perception of the building from the high-speed circulation of vehicles. Two parallel and shifted volumes ending in slender and vertical blind walls are conceived as monoliths anchored in the beltway embankment. Finished with dark Venetian stucco and signal lights, the opaque walls refer to publicity signs along the metropolitan beltway.

club-house and services

location:  la isla - asia, peru

client:  la isla beach club

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: s. cillóniz - f. quiñones

built surface:  1215 m2

completion:  2014

photographer:  j.p. crousse

A club-house, nursery, children’s playground, and swimming pool for a condominium is the occasion for dealing with little programs and big dimensions. A prominent platform crosses through the condominium marking the entrance to the recreational area. It receives the different programs under a series of concrete porches covered with local materials. The pool intersects with the platform forming a slightly sloped entrance to the water.

stands, hall and services

location:  rambouillet, france

client:  cheval français

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

built surface:  545 m2

completion:  2005

photographer:  j.m. monthiers

A large, horizontal plane folds vertically to shelter the bleachers and a multifunctional hall, creating transparency and visual communication between the racecourse, the stands, and the hall. The folded plane is made in a laminated wooden structure. Various service facilities are located under the stands, built-in reinforced concrete. The hall is conceived as a wide nave which receives the public between the horse races and for other activities off-season. Its double-height space and the lateral openings ensure the necessary natural ventilation to provide cooler air during the horse-race season, which takes place in the summertime.

170-unit mixed housing

76 collective units, 16 townhouses, 70 high-density houses

location:  zac bottières chenaie – nantes, france

client:  marignan bouwfonds

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse - g. roustan – j.m. viste

project team:  n. couineau - a. casemajor

urban design: j.p. pranlas

landscape architecture: bruel-delmar

built surface: 12848 m2

competition:  2006 – first prize

completion:  2010

photographer:  s. chalmeau

The development of a new neighborhood on the outskirts of Nantes has as the main goal to create a new center in north-east Nantes. This group is conformed by 70 houses, 16 intermediate housing, and 78 collective housing. The presence of stone wall enclosures was the occasion to propose a pedestrian grid accessible from common underground parking located along the street. This strategy allows replicating the typical narrow streets of Nantes, with high-quality urban spaces. Rainwater drainage flows in surfaced canals towards a retention pond and a common garden.

mixed typology housing

46 private units and 46 social units

location:  montreuil, france

client:  groupe expansiel promotion

design team:  s. barclay - j.p. crousse - l. beaudouin - e. beaudouin

project team:  e. valersteinas, j. lee, a. husson

urban design:  a. siza, m. corajoud, c. devillers, l. beaudouin

built surface:  7635 m2

completion:  2005

photographer:  j.m. monthiers

Three residential buildings are planned to be built at the heart of the ilôt 104 urban blocks, being part of the urban project for downtown Montreuil, designed by Alvaro Siza, Michel Corajoud, Christian Devillers, and Laurent Beaudouin. The housing project deals with a forsaken urban space, revealing natural topography and visuals of remarkable historic buildings. The different buildings share a common entrance, underground parking, and a garden.

suburban house

location: la molina, lima 

client:   private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team:  j.m. chinchay

built surface:  855 m2

completion:   2013

photographer:  g. caceres

The complex relation between intimacy, domesticity, spatial expansion, and transparency are explored in this project, which uses multiple ways to pass from the cyclopean opaqueness perceived from the street to the total transparency of the house towards its garden, treated as a shape green patio.

The house is organized vertically in three levels and horizontally at a right angle. The vertical organization responds to the program, while the horizontal organization reacts to context and orientation.

The program is divided into three levels: the service and the playful zone is under the level of the street, opening itself on a wide mineral patio, accessible from the entry by a ramp; the bedrooms are in the upper level, framing the distant sights; the social space, in-between, opens completely towards the green patio.

country house

location:  Pachacamac, peru

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team:  a. otero

built surface: 230 m2

completion  2015

photographer: j. solano

Located in a gentle slope of Lurin valley, the house acts as a frame and a shade for living in a mild desert climate, where the ambiguity between exterior and interior spaces is pushed to its limits. A concrete frame connects three living spaces that emerge from the slope and project to the landscape. Each living space has its own open space and can hold different simultaneous activities within the house.

2-unit urban houses

location:  lima, peru

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: r. apolaya

built surface: 1485 m2

completion  2011

photographer:  c. palma

award:  xv bienal de arquitectura del perú - first prize for individual dwelling - colegio de arquitectos del perú, lima 2012

The challenge of concealing low-rise urban regulations with a high-density program compels us to rethink an extensive program within a relatively small plot, where two big independent residences should share common services and a garden. The extensive bedroom area is located in the lower levels, serving as a plinth for the social area of both houses as well as a suspended garden with a shared pool. This inversion of the typical housing program produces an unusual elevated perspective of the cityscape from the suspended garden.

seasonal residence

location  asia, perú

client  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: v. del solar

built surface:  420 m2

completion:  2008

photographer:  j.p. crousse

A double ascending spiral allows the inhabitant, as well as the house itself, to elevate above existing edifications and open up towards the golf course and the ocean, surrounded by the Andes and the horizon. The first spiral is a physical one, constituted by the precinct´s wall, in exposed concrete, that surrounds the house´s site and transforms itself into a parallelepiped that travels towards the horizon. The second spiral is more spatial and its sensed while moving around the house. A series of patios and exterior stairs unfold and vertically communicate the different areas, finalizing on a great terrace located on the third floor where the pool and the dining and social areas are located.

3 town houses

location:  lima, peru

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team:  p. shimabukuro

built surface: 1595 m2

completion:  2009

photographer:  j.p. crousse

Three houses built on a corner lot in one of the most prestigious neighborhoods of Lima, close to the golf course. However, the constructed environment offers nothing more than façades of service areas and tall buildings with views of the golf course and other points of interest.  This is a reflection of residential development in Lima. The dream of an Anglo-Saxon “garden city” was forgotten after kilometers of protective bars and walls were installed and became characteristic of the city streets. For this reason the possibilities of a return to the inherited Mediterranean mode of building, the courtyard house, is explored utilizing its positive aspects.  From this house type, introverted, intimate and secret, the courtyard is retained, of course, but also the hall which is the traditional mediator between urban and domestic space. 

landscape design for rural housing condominium

location:  cusco, peru

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: f. costecalde – b. krieger

project surface:  1.6 ha

completion:  2009 -

photographer:  j.p. crousse

Located in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, the project inserts itself in the terrain using a system of terraces similar to the one used by the Incas during the 15th century, thus recovering ancient construction systems. By locating a house on each terrace, a clear vision of the valley is provided to each client, getting rid of walls and fences to differentiate one plot from another. The distribution of the lots has been carefully planned to replicate the geometry employed by the Incas in terrace design as well as to prevent the necessity of vehicular roads within the lots.

rural residence

location:  gers, france

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

built surface:  178 m2

completion:  2005

photographer:  j.p. crousse

The site is located at the summit of one of the first hills of the Gers region (Southwest of France), with magnificent views over the Pyrenees mountain range. The presence of a pond and the remains of a sun-dried bricks farm outline the site, define its limits, and orient the views towards the mountains' landscape. The house creates its own universe yet is grounded on the site and its preexisting farm. The different elements of the house are linked through exterior spaces that have been carefully studied to frame views of the surrounding landscape.

refreshment point

location:  la escondida beach, cañete, peru

client:  la escondida beach owners association

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

built surface:  108 m2

completion:  2006

photographer: j.p. crousse

The kiosk constitutes the limit of the common services of the beach, along with a playground and some tennis courts. This limit is materialized by a local stone wall that protects the dining area from the wind. A wooden pergola protects it from the tropical sun.

Peruvian Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale

location: venice, italy

client: patronato cultural del perú | fundación wiese

curators: s. barclay - j.p. crousse

project team: b. ruiz

participants: Ministerio de Educación del Perú - Plan Selva

                      e. añaños, r. huarcaya, m. nolte

built surface: 232m2

completion: 2016

photographer: m. romanzi

prizes: Special Mention of the Jury - Venice Biennale

The Peruvian Pavilion at the 15th Mostra di Architettura shows an unprecedented action to further dialogue in equal terms between the ancestral world of the Amazon and the modern Western vision of this land. Long considered either a frontier to be conquered or a region to be kept untouched, Peru is now fighting for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest through education, empowering indigenous communities to be custodians of their own land. In this endeavor, architecture proposes a flexible modular solution, attentive to climatic conditions and respectful to the Amazonian way of life, and provides the framework for this major cultural shift. The exhibition showed Plan Selva, a public large-scale program by the Peruvian Ministry of Education, along with two photographic pieces of visual research about the amazon region by Roberto Huarcaya and Musuk Nolte.

11-unit mixed-typology apartment building

location:  lima, peru

client:  barclay consultores

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team: a. zamudio, p. shimabukuro

built surface: 3140 m2

completion:  2017

The project unifies different types of dwellings, ranging from compact duplexes to large flats, in a radiator-like shape that allows optimal natural lighting and natural air ventilation in all units, despite the unusual overall depth of the building.

While the exterior faces are mainly opaque to preserve intimacy, the receded facades are glazed and contain terraces and exterior spaces. A multi-level entry hall visually links all levels and creates an internal, domestic world.

beach house

location:  cerro colorado, cañete, peru

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. crousse

project team:  s. cillóniz

built surface: 346 m2

completion  2011

photographers: e. ramirez, g. cáceres

The house is located on Cerro Colorado, a beach surrounded by a magnificent rocky hill. An enclosure is established as the project founding statement, occupying the maximum height, length, and width allowed by local regulations, thus establishing a prism that is excavated to create the living space, a large horizontal area for everyday life. In the mild climate of the coast, open-air spaces are defined by opacities and transparencies to create the impression of a space that is larger than its actual size. This “space expansion” preserves the intimacy of the habitants, modulating the amplitude to the diversity of use.

seasonal house

location:  asia, peru

client:  private

design team:  s. barclay – j.p. Crousse

project team: s. Naudeau, c. Teruya

built surface:  245 m2

completion:  2023

photographer:  c. palma  

The house is located in a compact urbanization next to the ocean. A simple and austere volume hides a rich spatiality in its interior, where a vertical space connects the house's three levels. The bedrooms are on the ground floor, while the social spaces are on the second level, ending on the third level with a large terrace and swimming pool.