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- Architects: PANORAMA, WMR
- Location: Matanzas, Navidad, O’Higgins Region, Chile
- Author Architects: PANORAMA (Nicolás Valdés, Constanza Hagemann), WMR (Felipe Wedeles Jorge Manieu Macarena Rabat)
- Area: 96.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2010
- Photographs: Sergio Pirrone
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This house in Matanzas is situated at the top of a cliff, 65mts. approximately above sea level.
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A two storey house, for a couple and their son, is structured within a square volume of 9 by 9mts. Inside intersects another volume at a higher level, which is rotated 45 degrees in relation to the floor plan, allowing double heights and the arrangement of spaces in the first floor.
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The program is ordered in a simple way, at the first floor a single space for the living room, dining room and kitchen and on the back a sleeping area and the stairs to the second floor.
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Then, to the side and facing north, the terrace partly enclosed, allowing the users to go outside during days of extreme wind.
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Finally, in the diagonal volume or second floor, the room and the bathroom.
Three defined sectors as the result of the orientation to the panoramic views of the landscape: the isle, the beach and the forest in front of the ocean.
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