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Set on a steep stretch of the Chilean coast, this home designed by Gubbins Polidura Arquitectos along with MasArquitectos, solves a tough web site with form, restraint, and readability. The design turns a rocky slope right into a horizontal place to dwell, framing the ocean and sundown with out overpowering the panorama.
Images by Cristobal Palma
Images by Cristobal Palma
The home consists of two stacked components organized vertically. A concrete podium types the bottom, embedded into the slope so it turns into a part of the terrain. Above it sits an amoeba-shaped glazed pavilion.
Materials decisions are intentionally restricted. Glass, stone, wooden, and plank-form concrete seem all through, creating visible continuity between construction and inside components.
Images by Cristobal Palma
Images by Aryeh Kornfeld
The pavilion is wrapped in floor-to-ceiling glass, permitting views to unfold in each route. The curved perimeter softens the boundary between inside and outdoors, reinforcing the natural form of the plan.
Round the home, the panorama was restored utilizing native wildlife. Over time, vegetation is meant to fill the areas between structure, making the constructing really feel long-established.
Images by Aryeh Kornfeld
Images by Aryeh Kornfeld
Images by Aryeh Kornfeld
Inside, the fabric palette stays restrained and constant. Granite flooring proceed from inside areas to the outside, visually extending rooms into the panorama.
Furnishings and built-in components are made out of stacked plywood boards, reinforcing the concept of repetition, horizontality, and materials economic system.
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The lounge occupies one of many pavilion’s round areas. At its heart is a sunken lounge that grounds the room whereas remaining visually open to the ocean. With no partitions interrupting the perimeter, consideration is drawn outward towards the horizon quite than inward towards construction.
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The eating room follows the identical round logic as the opposite public areas. Its placement inside the pavilion permits it to stay visually related to the panorama always. Like the lounge, the sunken central space with banquette seating defines the house with out enclosing it.
Images by Aryeh Kornfeld
Images by Aryeh Kornfeld
Images by Cristobal Palma
The kitchen, with its curved white cabinetry, completes the trio of public rooms within the higher pavilion. From right here, the remainder of the home fades from view, leaving solely glass, sky, and sea.
Images by Roland Halbe
Images by Cristobal Palma
On the coronary heart of the house is a spiral staircase. This vertical component connects the general public areas above with the non-public sleeping areas under. Constructed from stacked plywood, it acts as each circulation and sculptural anchor.
Images by Roland Halbe
Images by Roland Halbe
The decrease degree is embedded within the web site and homes the non-public areas. Bedrooms and loo areas are contained inside the concrete podium. Flooring-to-ceiling home windows present uninterrupted views, whereas the sliding doorways open on to the landscaping.
Images by Cristobal Palma
Images by Cristobal Palma
Images by Roland Halbe
A inexperienced roof covers the concrete podium, serving to it mix into the encompassing terrain. From sure viewpoints, the bottom of the home is barely seen. This technique reduces the visible influence of the constructing and strengthens its relationship with the panorama.
Images by Roland Halbe
The architectural drawings reveal the clear separation between private and non-private applications. They present how the 2 ranges relate in another way to the land, one embedded and one elevated. The amoeba-shaped plan additionally performs a job in seismic habits, supporting each construction and kind.
By carving a horizontal airplane right into a steep slope and putting a clear pavilion above it, the design of this home permits panorama, gentle, and horizon to steer. If you stand contained in the glass pavilion, the home itself appears to vanish, leaving solely the coast and the view past.
Structure corporations: Gubbins Polidura Arquitectos and MasArquitectos | Architects: Antonio Polidura, Alex Brahm, and Hernan Fournies | Panorama: Juan Grimm | Buildings: Alberto Maccioni | Advisor: Daniel Alemparte | Inside Design: Rodrigo castillo / Proimagen
