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.
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.
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