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1987 marks a prolific moment in Alcock’s works, when he designed three homes in Caracas: Fischer House (El Hatillo), Mazzarella House (La Florida) and Kavac, designed for a businessman, who was an aviation enthusiast and business owner. The latter house, located in the scenic landscape of the Country Club, on a slightly sloping plot, is where Alcock proposed new references for habitable space using the colonial house with courtyard typolo-gy. The access, through a magnificently proportioned staircase, covered by a horizontal pergola contained between a brick wall and a colonnade, introduces us into a scenic atmosphere. Crossing the threshold, the rectangular green courtyard can be seen, surrounded by corridors and defined by pergola-like eaves and brick-covered cylin-drical columns. The roofs expose a suggestive concrete structure, an expressive and complex skeleton, like a double covering rising open to the Ávila and supporting the roof, while descending inclined to become a pergola, protecting, giving shade and defining a smaller scale. The light and openness to the landscape are generated through a remarkable intermediate space. Mastery in the wall and surface details is complemented with the impeccable exposed finish structure. According to William Niño, this is an «almost monastic work, with refer-ences to medieval architecture and fully tropicalized light».
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