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Villa “San Isidro” by MACCCONSTRUCCIONES / APLUS: A Home Organized Around Landscape

Villa San Isidro in Quito organizes shared rooms around a stone courtyard and sends the route to its bedrooms through a planted forest landscape.

By Bettesworth Construction Team 2 min read
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Villa San Isidro, a residence in Quito, Ecuador, is organized around two contrasting daily routes: shared living spaces converge on a stone courtyard and central tree, while reaching the bedrooms means passing through a planted forest landscape. That sequence is the project team’s design narrative, not a measured claim about the home’s performance.

What is the design concept of Villa San Isidro?

The project team describes two principal axes meeting at a stone courtyard, which it calls the heart of the home. The living room, dining room, kitchen, and an “arch room” gather around this center and face a tree. The arrangement gives the shared rooms a common orientation rather than treating them as isolated spaces. ArchDaily’s project feature attributes this account to the project team.

How does the house connect its public rooms and bedrooms?

Shared rooms meet at the courtyard

The courtyard is the organizing point for the principal social spaces. Stone underfoot and the central tree give the meeting of the two axes a distinct landscape focus; the project description does not provide construction details for the courtyard or tree.

The bedroom route crosses the planted landscape

Access to the bedrooms passes through the forest landscape, with a gallery running along the bedrooms. The architects present this passage as a sensory part of everyday movement through the house. It creates a clear distinction in the plan: the shared rooms gather at the courtyard, while the route to the private rooms unfolds through planting.

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What landscape and materials are described?

The project description names endemic vegetation, aromatic species, and old olive trees, alongside a semi-Olympic pool and terrace. These features support the project’s indoor-outdoor narrative, but the available description does not give the pool’s dimensions or technical specification.

Materials named by the project team are raw concrete, stone, metal, and wood. The feature does not provide quantities, detailed specifications, or a room-by-room material schedule. ArchDaily lists Artyco, Axel Miguez, Graiman, Identra, Jessa Cia. Ltda., and Lighthaus as manufacturers, but does not identify which products or components each supplied.

Who designed the villa, and what are its reported areas?

ArchDaily credits MACCCONSTRUCCIONES / APLUS as the architects, Nicolás Macchiavello as lead architect, and Nicolás Provoste as photographer; Valentina Díaz is credited as curator. Aceroplus is listed for structural engineering, and Audelio Sánchez appears under another engineering or consulting category without a more specific scope.

Source and label Reported figure
ArchDaily, English feature published October 4, 2026; area listed for the project 822 m²
Project-team LinkedIn post; useful area 410.89 m²
Project-team LinkedIn post; gross area 822.17 m²

The figures should retain their source and labels: the project-team post distinguishes useful area from gross area, while ArchDaily gives a rounded project area. The LinkedIn post specifies 2024 as the design year and completion of construction in 2025; ArchDaily lists 2025 as the project year. The project-team post is available at maccconstrucciones on LinkedIn.

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What project details are not established?

The published descriptions do not provide exact site coordinates, construction drawings, a room schedule, cost, energy-performance data, or an independent evaluation. They also do not establish how individual manufacturers’ products were used. Accordingly, the project can be understood through its stated plan, landscape, materials, and credited team, but not assessed from these sources for measured environmental or construction performance.

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