Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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House Fabrega is one more example of what is happening in Panama City with some buildings, many of them of relevance to the recent architectural heritage. Accelerated land speculation to the destruction of many of the properties located in the center of the city in neighborhoods such as Bella Vista, San Francisco, Balboa Avenue and El Cangrejo.
have been created and entirely new and refurbished areas with good planning conditions as other East Coast and not as Punta Pacifica. Paitilla
has densified even more, like Obarrio and Marbella. Amador, an area belonging reverted to Panama the Canal Zone, with magnificent views of the skyline new , previously made a great balance between urban planning and landscaping has been given to the tourism market predator making over large areas as theme parks very low quality of both architectural and urban.
Fabrega House was designed by the firm of Roux, Bermudez and Brennan in 1948 for a couple of doctors. The edifición is located in one of the slopes of "The Crest" and its design stems from the topography of the site. From there it reached then good views of the Bay of Panama, forcing to direct most of the main rooms and social areas and pavilions on terraces supported by piles. The vertical circulation is located on an axis transversal to the main volume and volumetric space treaty differently. The importance of this housing part of the solution purely functionalist approach where the traditional bourgeois neo-colonial villa Hispanic is being gradually phased out by an expression adapted to a new aesthetic condition, form and function.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

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Housing in the tropics


Quarry Heights comprises a small urban cluster located at the foot of Ancon Hill, specifically on the slopes located behind the Administration Building of the Canal. This is one of the most charming places throughout the city that maintains the amenities of being just minutes from downtown and surrounded by the thick vegetation of Cerro Ancon and protected ecosystem for years. At the time was a testing ground for the Americans on the issue landscape and garden we see today its results despite the neglect and ignorance often of its new owners, the Panamanians.
The strong segregation of classes existing in the former Canal Zone, which was both racial and military rank, was reflected in the types of housing in amplitude, facilities and green areas. Are mostly a series of bungalows rather scattered in the territory without protective fences. Its structure and wooden enclosure is basically very good quality (they have withstood over 60 years), lifted by a hormingón base armed with all necessary modern facilities of water, electricity, health drains, etc.
Its architecture is not far from the examples can be found inlso on the outskirts of Panama City and Park Lefevre or Rio Abajo but yet these same objects arranged architects in this heavenly tropical landscape is far from the degree of planning in which it was created.
Some of these houses have been adapted and upgraded to current needs, some more friendly than others of the original model. The most maintain the main features like the simplicity of its solution tectonics, large roofs with generous eaves for rain protection, the verandas, mosquito mesh has been replaced with glass windows in porches that fits pretty well. Otherwise the solution is quite radical to change the look of these elegant buildings with flashy postmodern ornaments surrounded by high walls and perimeter fences .