House for Eagles
The commission is a small facility to provide rehabilitation for wounded or injured birds found in mountain areas surrounding the city of Monterrey, in order to procure care while they can be incorporated back into the nature.
The commission is a small facility to provide rehabilitation for wounded or injured birds found in mountain areas surrounding the city of Monterrey, in order to procure care while they can be incorporated back into the nature.
The caretaker, in an intend to give the birds a worthy of rehabilitation and temporary living space contacted us after searching and only find several small aviaries that in his opinion -and then also in ours after analyzing them- weren’t very functional or considerate with the well-being of birds.
We understood this challenge as an opportunity to design a different standard in this type of constructions -whose motive is caring for this kind of birds- through a simple strategy based on modulation and repetition of the same elements. We used a constructive structural section that by adding modules generates the required space for occupation, safe handling and feeding of the birds.
The project is a structure made of pine-wood frames that intersect in two directions forming a virtual volume, whose limit is defined by simply connecting them with a metal mesh. The house for eagles hugs a big tree that provides shade and heat protection to the birds. We visualized this structure as a sort of extension of the lower branches of this tree and an intervention where geometry and nature could establish a dialogue through the use of the same elemental material: wood.
Project: House for Eagles
Architects: S-AR
WebSite: www.s-ar.mx
Location: Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
Project Team: César Guerrero, Ana Cecilia Garza.
Program: Shelter for birds.
Client: Private.
OccupationArea: 33 m2.
Year of Project: 2015
Year of Construction: 2016
Photography: Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal.
Drawings: Marisol González.
Model: Mariana Flores.
Technical Inspection: S-AR
Construction: Gustavo Rojas &Bros.
Materials: Wood, metal mesh, metallic sheets.
Construction System: Pine-wood frames structure, stapled metal mesh, metallic sheets cover.
