From plan to home: Quito

Full design, remote. Designed 2026 · awaiting installation.

A family apartment in Quito, designed from Miami to the last piece without a single site visit. We rebuilt the plan from the architect’s files, verified it in centimetres, and chose, priced and placed every piece to scale before anything was bought. Purchasing is online, with shipping to Ecuador.

Twenty-four people can sit at once, in four groups that see each other. The design is final and approved; the renders are labelled as renders. Installation is next.

All projects

The empty apartment: a long living room opening to the terrace and the kitchen — Before: the empty apartment, as it was handed over.

Final zoning plan of the apartment: terrace, living room, dining room and kitchen, with seats per zone and the main route — The final plan: four zones, twenty-four seats, one route.

Measured plan of the apartment in centimetres, drawn from the architect’s files — 1. The plan, measured in centimetres from the architect’s files.

Final furnished plan to scale: terrace, living, dining, kitchen and entry, every piece numbered to its own sheet — 2. The final plan: every piece verified in centimetres, numbered to its own sheet.

Render of the final dining room: a felt triptych designed by the studio above a wood table with cane and leather chairs — 3. Render — the dining room, with the felt triptych designed by us.

Four decisions on the plan

Six chairs, not eight: The chosen chair, the Klub by Steen Østergaard, is 63.5 cm wide; three a side would overlap by 2.5 cm. Two a side and two at the heads, and four more at the island.
A piece made for the dining wall: “Trama Topográfica”: a wool-felt work drawn by the studio for the wall behind the table, in the shyrdak tradition — one continuous line that enters, turns and leaves. 316 × 125 cm, in prototype with the workshops of AKA Art Productions.
A work for the only quiet corner: A Kathmandu paper wall work by Jessica Stockholder, in burgundy. It completes the red of a Rosso Levanto marble side table and balances the two greens.
A rug that stays quiet: On the terrace, a flat weave under the whole seating area that stops 34 cm short of the fire.

Render of the full felt work: a quilted wool composition in cream and brown, 3.16 by 1.25 metres, designed by AKA — Render — the dining-room work itself: felt by hand, 316 × 125 cm — our design, in prototype with the workshops of AKA Art Productions.

Centre panel of the felt triptych: quilted cream wool with a brown circuit-like figure — The centre panel.

Design and curation: AKA Interior Design, Fabian Ortega. Plans and renders by the studio; renders are labelled as renders; the photograph of the empty apartment shows the state at handover.

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