1. Estacionamiento 2. Entrada 3. Estar 4. Comedor 5. Dormitorio servicio 6. Baño servicio 7. Cocina
8. Patio servicio 9. Terraza
10. Jardín interior 11. Vacío del estar 12. Dormitorio principal 13. Dormitorio hijos 14. Baño
1. Parking 2. Entrance 3. Living 4. Dinning room
8. Service yard 9. Terrace 10. Interior garden 11. Empty area 12. Main bedroom 13. Kids bedroom 14. Bathroom
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Plano de remodelación, 1960. Remodeling plan
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Planta nivel 1 1 st level plan
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HOUSE IN A ROW FOR ARCHITECT
two longitudinal strips separated by a furniture unit, in which the dining room and living room were placed; and two transversal strips defined by the vaults, where the entrance and library were under the first vault and the social areas under the second. Bermúdez had created an extraordinary space in a structure that conformed to the principles of repetition and economy of linear organizations, reconciling a principle from the urban structure with its formal searches. The project, located on the eastern edge of the neighborhood, was located in a singular block that was part of two urbanizations with different layouts, exposing the house to conditions that could not be more dissimilar: towards the west, on Carrera Trece, an area under construction with an uncertain and unpromising future; in the back, towards the east, the distant view towards the hills and the nearby vegetation of the La Cabrera neighborhood. In a section made for Proa magazine, published in 1953, the architect’s intention to open the house towards the eastern hills and towards the vegetation of La Cabrera can be recognized. The central space that initially looked towards the mountains, will turn towards the garden with the extensions of 1956 - when the architect acquires a strip of 5 meters that enlarges the lot to 15 meters and builds a studio and a room that extends towards the garden - and 1960, when he made an expansion of the service area. By then the Bermúdez house was a courtyard house, in a row, composed of three bays.
Guillermo Bermúdez - a Bogota architect trained in his early years at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a graduate of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia - designed and built his own house between 1952 and 1960 in the El Retiro urbanization, in the north-east of Bogotá, an area in process of urbanization. The Bermúdez house was developed in several stages while inhabited by the architect and his family, gradually transforming as the environment consolidated, altering the initial conditions of the site. The El Retiro neighborhood was made up of elongated 80 m wide blocks of variable length, occupied by individually built row houses. The first version of the house, completed in 1952, was designed using a procedure to formally solve the semi-detached houses, widespread at the time, which consisted of defining the spaces by means of longitudinal bays, favoring the execution and economy of the work, but restricting the possibility of complex spatial configurations. The volume of the Bermúdez house created following this principle, was a prism 10 m wide and 8.6 m deep, composed of two bays and topped by two transverse vaults in concrete. On the north side, attached to the neighboring house, the first bay housed the bedrooms and services, distributed on two floors, while on the south side, in the second bay, a single double height space grouped the social areas and organized the access, circulations and the staircase, completely eliminating enclosures and corridors. This space consisted of
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