Obra construida: La casa de Marco Ramírez

Residencia de Marco Ramírez, M.D. 

En Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia, SurAmérica.

Urbanización Los Remansos - La Tablita (entrada club Campestre)

Area lote: 900 mts.2

Area construida: 160 mts.2.

 Diseño y construcción. Abril 1983- mayo 1984. Publicado en el número # 339 de la Revista PROA de arquitectura  ( Septiembre 1985 ). 

 Estructura concreto armado (zapatas, vigas de amarre, columnas y vigas aéreas). Algunas columnas en concreto visto de color. 

Muros en ladrillo blanco tipo ??????

Estructura de la cubierta  en vigas rollizas de mangle (O=.20 mts.). La cubierta es placa de concreto con malla, y shingle negro Fiberglass. 

Canales y bajantes de aguas lluvias a la vista en lámina cold-rolled cal. 18. 

Carpintería de madera (puertas, ventanas y rejas) en cedro caquetá, elaborada en el taller del maestro Echeverry, Ibagué

Mini piscina circular de 15 m3 de agua tratada con miniplanta.

La casa esta situada en la parte baja de Ibagué, 

Vista exterior desde el suroriente mirando al noroccidente. Se ve la rotonda de entrada en gravilla graduada y lavada.

La terraza interior sobre la minipiscina circular.

Detalle de esquina donde destaco las siguientes cosas:

1. El muro escualizado
2. La columna suelta
3. La estrecha ventana que sale de la escualizada del muro, con su dintel en madera, y su reja en madera verde.
4. El piso alrededor de la rotonda y el zócalo enchapado en baldosa
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XSS Design (Small Objet Design): In this case Termoguantes Ambidextros (Thermogloves)

Loofah thermo gloves for use in the kitchen. It was all an accident. The same as old Newton and the apple, you see. It just happened. So this is my smallest design so far. The photos are from the second prototype, but already show the chalk outlines of the lineal stitching for the third prototype.






My thesis is that, because of loofah's cellular structure, you can design a very decent family of very thin, pliable and thermostatic loofah gloves for use in the kitchen enviroment, that can be used with either hand.

The first prototype was only for use with the right hand. The second prototype is interchangeable, and works very nicely. I´ve had problems uploading Nokia videos to Blogspot, but I´ll show you soon how well the glove handles itself in the kitchen.

It only has one predictable problem and that is a certain planar rigidity due to the double loofaah plane that allows it to work with either hand.

The solution leads towards the third prototype. The workshop sketch and the initial photos show the stitching work that will articulate it as a medieval gauntlet.



As soon as the third prototype arrives, I´ll show it to you. he purpose of this excercise is not only to furnish myself with useful kitchen ware, but to further exacerbate my already swollen ego into believing first that i´m a forgotten genius, and second that i can myself rich one day with one of these objects.