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- Architects: Prado Arquitectos
- Location: Hualpén, Hualpén, Bío Bío Region, Chile
- Architect In Charge: Cristián Prado, Tomás Prado, Raúl Espinoza
- Area: 425.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
- Photographs: Daniel Pinilla
- Collaborator Architect: Katia González, Daniel Pinilla
- Structural Engineer: Juan Marcus Schwenk
- Electrical Engineer: Isidora Gouet
- Healt Care Project : Marcelo Valenzuela
- Contractor: Juan Pablo Grau
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From the architect. A house on the edge of the cliffs, 60 m above the sea, on Tumbes’s Península, at the Bío-Bío Region.
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The concept of full dedication to the presence of the Pacific Ocean conditions the architectural gesture to an attitude of simplicity and modesty in space and formal resources to let flow the previous landscape.
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In this way, the architectural program resolves in basic and essentials volumes with, literally, longitudinal black containers sitting in the descending levels of the edge and unaligned to not alter or touch the endemic and centennial vegetation of Peumos, Boldos, Ulmos.
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The volume set adapts and submits to the arboreal primacy of the landscape. From the way of arrival, the dark and tight containers transform into illuminated, open and transparent spaces towards the immanent sea prominence once you discover the home access point.
Site Plan
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Therefore, the architectural program flows and spills by the North-East wing where the bedrooms are located or the North-West wing where you will find the social chambers; between them, only the intercommunication staircase. The open and continuous interior is modulated by the constant rate made of the repeated solid wood trusses. These are made of 8×8” Cypress’s logs as the columns and beams and configure large slightly inclined planes at the ceiling.
Ground Plan
Complementary materiality also refers to few items; Interior volumes in bare concrete, cement look floors or walls covered in wood, or black and white synthetic surfaces, denoting their status as living space accessory or complementary objects.
Section
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