Amorphica Design Research Office // Qg+A
© 1999-2006. amorphica design research office // Qg+A. and J. Aaron Gutierrez.
Project
Midwick House
M. & J. Garcia
Client
San Diego, California
Location
Credits.
J. Aaron Gutierrez. Design
Octavio Quijada. Construction Documents
Julia Cerrud. Design, Environments
This single-family residence located in the east part of the City of San Diego had a program which involved the constant caring and monitoring of a child who will live in this house, along with his parents, for a long time to come.
March 2005
Cairo Bermudez. Project Team
June 2005
Phase
D.L. Rosales / Qg+A. Structural Engineering
The First Floor Plan houses the main living quarters of the house, all being divided by an interstitial wall which is made up of a sandwiched wood milimetrical veneer between to slabs of acrilyc, thus making the effect of either solid wood, and transluscent wood as well.
The Second Floor Plan is where the more intimate rooms are located, all, again, divided by a transluscent wooden panel. All rooms have the ability to be transluscently visible by any other room on the same floor.
This threshold of an object runs fluidly throughout. It is a means to connect without words between the parents, and their son. This is a functional, yet informational and educational wall.
July 2005
August 2006
Ecoresin sandwiching a razor-thin slice of zebrano veneer wood: Transluscent wood.
Construction