An Ecuadorian Home Made From 900 Lego-Like Blocks

Modular construction is as old as settled civilization and as ubiquitous as Lego , but it ’s less than common to see an architect literally reinvent the brick , asJose María Sáezand David Barragán have . The couple of Ecuadorian designer are the subject of a late profile inDwell , where they discuss how they built a sprawl home out of 900 indistinguishable concrete blocks , designed and fabricated specifically for the labor .

What makes their system alone ? Depending on how you orient each module , they organise solid wall , storage systems , or even inhabit green wall . One side of the 40 - inch - farsighted bricks is completely flat — when they ’re stacked , they create a normal rampart . The other side is notched , which means those faces can serve as shelf , planters , or stable mounting surface for furniture and bikes . A three - inch col between each blocking can be leave behind open to the outdoors , or infilled to prop up up a elbow room . A minute kettle of fish in the turning point of each block is threaded down to the ground , creating a tightly woven pulley block organization that , as Dwell mention , is interchangeable to a distinctive IKEA assembly .

In Ecuador , a modular system like this construct a luck of sense : it creates micro - climate within the house that are n’t quite outside or in . Functionally mouth , this is an idea that ’s been around for ages , but it ’s re - emerged recently as an cheap and dynamic building system — for exercise , thistwo - part brick systemthat could modulate estrus loss and humidity in low - income urban community .

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