El Caparazón House & Workshop

Andrea Arias
4 min readNov 17, 2021

A short review of a house in Paraguay —

Photographer: Leonardo Méndez // Source

The first thing that stood out for me in this project, beyond its beautiful vaulted space, is the following excerpt from the architects:

When a project is conceived in terms of dreams, desires, sensations, and magic, the architectural response turns more towards the materialization of spatial ideas than towards a real estate service. — Grupo

Andrea Arias

Architecturally trained. Artfully minded. Permanently in my experimental phase. Follow me to look at the built environment through unique perspectives.