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  

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

A new generic classroom and faculty offices in UDEP campus, situated in the hot desert in the North of Peru, 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 10 buildings are 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  

prize:  XII Bienal del Perú - first prize - culture

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 access to these spaces are located along this "crack".

A seemingly contradictory hybridization between the labyrinthine spatiality, used by the ancient Peruvians, and the fluid and dynamic contemporary spatiality, is explored in the interior.

The environmental harshness of the Paracas Desert and the preservation requirements of the collection are solved with a "environmental regulator device", that defines the architectural volumes and spaces. This device allows to provide 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 give to 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 memory - 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, huancayo 2014

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

cica award for latin-american architecture - international comitee of architectural critics - buenos aires 2013

premio bienal - américa latina - XIV bienal internacional de arquitectura de buenos aires, 2013

A presidential commission leaded by Nobel prized Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, launched in 2010 a national architecture competition for the construction of the Place of Memory, a place where people from diverse political an social origins work together to reach a possible reconciliation between Peruvian people, confronted by 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 dynamic of cliffs and ravines that ring the bay of Lima, merging with landscape by following the same territorial logic that characterizes its waterfront. 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 permanent exhibition.

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

The traditional beach town of Punta Hermosa, 45km south from 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 in an outdoor, shaded space, framing views on the Pacific Ocean. This large, contemporary porch is conceived as an interior landscape, which relates with the exterior one so to redefine each other.

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, the two houses share a patio, an architectural idea and a landscape. A unique platform, that appears to have been excavated directly from the sand, holds the private areas of both housing, creating a bond between the two families around a common patio. Two “cracks“ give room for open stairs that lead to a large “artificial beach“, a large open space that has a san patio and a pool. Around it a series of objects of polyvalent use allow a variety of uses throughout day and night.

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

The house is conceived as a soil extrusion rather than an object in 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 the one of them, they seem an unfinished structure, so as the landscape appear to our eyes.

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 space is privileged, while framing breathtaking urban views of this magnificent park 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 recession of the volumes with regard to the limit of the area create a great 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 courts events can be organized. They also constitute the access to the café-restaurant, which is located in the third level. The wall that defines these courts has a treatment with a policromy of grays, generating a surprising exterior space contrasting with the urban space atmosphere.

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 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 stat-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 them duplex, open thoroughly to the views, protected by a wooden sliding screen.  An urban square with a centennial Ponciana tree is created and serve as transitional space between 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 in 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 to 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 relation between a common building and the city, and the relation between a typical department and its environment, using as only device the urban loggia.

The urban loggia allows to create 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 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

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 scale and avoid competing with the primary role given to the original façade. Treatment to the new façade, apparently ethereal, is conceived in a random sequence. The glass screen captures natural light and create shadows help create a rhythm that merge 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 transformation takes the project even further away from the original ideas of the building, designed by a team leaded 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.

To reinforce the association between the museum, the city and the ocean, all the public services are grouped together. Transparency was also applied to the interiors: all the public spaces have a view towards the permanent collection.itself and 

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 on the club’s first building, a metal and wooden structure painted in marine white.  The dining space opens thoroughly to the sea view and can be transformed in an open terrace in summer by pivoting frameless glazing. The roof in 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.

The building is open to the landscape, allowing each apartment to enjoy the view and to have a privileged relationship with nature.

The particularity of the program resides in an atypical duplex with a double height exhibit space. This makes the duplex an authentic "house in the park" with its owngarden.  The concept for the apartments allows 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 Périphérique Boulevard, the beltway that surrounds Paris. The building fits into the urban grid of low-rise houses of Malakoff and exploits its diagonal position on behalf of 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 punctuated by light "beacons", 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 opportunity 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 these two entities. The folded plane is made in a laminated wooden structure. Various service facilities are located under the bleachers, 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 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 in the outskirts of Nantes has as a 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 trenches, valleys and a pond in the complex invited the design to recede towards the topography of the Nantes area, marked by natural irrigation.

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, being part of the urban project for downtown Montreuil, designed by Alvaro Siza, Michel Corajoud, Christian Devillers and Laurent Beaudouin. The housing project deal 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 in a right angle. The vertical organization responds to the program, while the horizontal organization reacts to context and orientation.

The program is divided in 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 connect 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 small plot, where two big residences must coexist maintaining independency from each other. A very 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 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 visual of the valley is provided to each client eliminating the necessity of walls and fences to differentiate one lot 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 of the northern and northeastern landscape. The presence of a pond and an adobe ruin characterize the site, define its limits to the south and orient the views towards the distant Pyrenees’ mountains. The house creates its own universe yet is grounded on the site and its preexisting farm.  The different elements of the program are linked through exterior spaces that have been carefully studied in order to relate to 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 a 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 an 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 two photographic researches 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

built surface: 3140 m2

completion:  2015

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 crossed ventilation in all the units, despite the general thickness 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-storey 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 in a urban development in cerro colorado beach. An enclosure is established as the project “founding act”, occupying the maximum height, length and width allowed by local regulations, thus establishing a prism which is excavated to create the living space, a large horizontal area for everyday life.  In our mild climate, architecture is freed from the need for cover or protection, so open air spaces are defined by opacities and transparencies to create the impression of a space that is larger than it actual size. This “spacial dilatation” preserves the intimacy of the habitants, modulating the amplitude to the diversity of use.