Casa Ocal is a eucalyptus-wood house in the Ecuadorian mountains

Jorge Ramón Giacometti Taller de Arquitectura designed Casa Ocal to suit its hard-to-reach location in the mountains in the north of Ecuador.
The Ecuadorian architecture practice used eucalyptus wood and recycled metal for the gabled structure.
Casa Ocal is in the Ecuadorian Andes
Casa Ocal is raised on pilotis to allow rainwater to flow unobstructed down the hill beneath the house. The stilts also allowed for the creation of a level ground floor without any laborious and costly excavatio