Casa Croquis
The House workshop sketch is a space designed by and for a family of young creatives that bet you on the idea of everyday design and managing opportunities from collaborative exercises.
The workshop, specializing in clothing, accessories and unique pieces that are hand-painted, made to measure and with processes, aims for 18 years, provide employment opportunities to women who have developed creative potential being heads of household and inhabitants of marginalized sectors of the city mothers. This search of empowerment of the woman as force productive is a premise of inclusion social that it marks sketch has accomplished print in their products. Also, the way of conceiving their own home rescuing eigenvalues as informality and design by necessity of the contexts of scarcity. It availability space of the housing towards the unit productive and the self-management, is a principle of sustainability own of them sectors social more needy that can be transferred and adapted with some formality to others strata social as it shows the House workshop sketch. With this idea of self them owners responsible for the project, which is designed almost all in work in consensus with all them actors creative and not alone by them architects. Design for other things happen if have that happen, with some spontaneity and more beyond of them plans, is a premise that goes in seeks of a space alive and significant, loaded of inclusion and with the identity of their owners.
The decision to seek the link with the productive makes housing introverted and occupy the module back in the House; by this reason the housing this provided of two patios internal that serve of support of vegetation and provide the quality space and environmental required for make it more cozy, achieving levels of comfort appropriate by means of its lighting and ventilation natural.
With the need of create a place appropriate for the work of the workshop, this notion of the space comfortable proposes in the second floor of the module of face to the street a facade openwork that opposite the sunlight of the evening, that check them raids solar direct in the space and that avoid them profits thermal favoring it ventilation cross. This element permeable, built as a tissue of masonry ceramic called "bloquelon", commonly used to lighten slabs of mezzanine, is a solution creative and economic, that besides give an image powerful to the brand, is according intentions own of the project as it are the austerity and the multifunctionality of all their components.
Finally, and considering them variations economic temporary that tend to affect to them creative, in the first floor with extension to the porches is projected two local commercial independent for rental, that serve of support economic to the housing, that it make sustainable in them times difficult and that you allow establish a relationship of appropriation with the street and the neighborhood leaving see what happens in the inside and projecting its availability.
With the idea of House as own, and significant space built in time to make happen everyday, the owners have managed to make that the raw material of this project is life itself, which so often has heard the word crisis, but also with resilience has managed to overcome the conflict every day to materialize the place where the family thrives.
