Fuster + Partners is a San Juan, Puerto Rico based firm with a flare for the play of light on their buildings. Their design of the Delpin-Nunez House is a great example of this. The house uses many techniques to capture and manipulate natural light. For Instance, the house utilizes, both in floor and ceiling planes, a perforated glass reinforced concrete panel system which brings light into the interior pool. Windows and skylights also perforate the house with dramatic consequences in a style paying homage to Le Corbusier’s La Tourette.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
The techniques to capture and manipulate natural light looks to me more like Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba, besides Corbu’s skylights. Really, I think theres nothing original in this house,not even the pool which is a copy + paste from mexican architect Luis Barragan. If you make some research about tropical architecture, for example the Brazilian Modernism, you will notice the number of copy + pasted items this architect Fuster is stealing without any sense of contextualism or identity.
November 1st, 2008 at 5:53 pm
It,s true AM it has been done before.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
This guy Fuster has another projects in which you can see clearly the architectural forms and spaces of Oscar Niemeyer.
November 17th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
The distribution of spaces seems to be out of proportion. The interior is cold, it does not look like a house and the sparse furnishings seem unfriendly. The details seems unfinished and the exposed concretes looks awful.
January 26th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Architecture is a continuos evolution from the interpretations of each designer. I can see the similarity of Barragan’s pool but never a copy+paste. There’s nothing wrong with manipulating the light like Niemeyer and Corbusier did; actually i would be proud if compared to any of them. I hope you have visited the house in person if you are saying that the house has no sense of contextualism or identity. This is his design, his interpretation, I can say that Corbusier daylight system was copy from the Egyptian, and who would prove me wrong – nobody. I think is a nice-unique piece, contemporary and yes influenced by those architects. Everyone has concepts and ideas that were already explored, but we always try to improve them, that’s how we evolve.