Paz House | House Two

Las Condes, Chile

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Paz House | House Two

Las Condes, Chile

Firm

MoDe Studio - Modern Development Studio, LLC
Eduardo Berlin Razmilic Associated Architects

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2008

Through an unconventional implantation, House
Two articulates the house’s every-day program in a single level. Opposing
the site’s natural slope, the house and garden develop 3,5 meters above street
level, via an elemental ground operation that transforms the preexistent rise
in two main horizontal plans, above and below. Both realms are gradually
articulated by architectural operations.
More than a parking lot, the 500 square meter
court, porous and transparent, amounts to an access plaza, carefully designed
and partially sheltered by the second’s level large volume. This liberated
place directs the observer toward the Central Patio, open at the center of the
second level volume, and manifest in the plaza by a rectangular water tank.
This Patio not only articulates the houses three stories, but also generates
it’s entrance through the staircase.
The program’s proposition is clear and simple: one
walkway circumscribed to the Patio, and articulated by the family room, meeting
place by definition and reinforced by this duality of passing versus staying.
As in a screenplay, this circulation tells the
story of the program in absolute equal terms: bedrooms, living room, kitchen,
terrace, etc., create all possible programmatic relations without interference.
Thus the house scale is preserved in a rectangular single story program holding
over 520 square meters, with large spaces, with control levels common to
compact projects, but autonomies common to disaggregated plans.
The third level holds a den and a large open
terrace that dominates the Andes views and the abundant vegetation. This roof
terrace relates to the lower level through circular perforations in the
floor/ceiling contributing light but also showing each other reciprocally thus
anticipating the whole through allusive fragments that allow our minds to
reconstruct it.
By this unusual implantation, House Two
relates and governs over three grand exterior spaces (plaza, garden, and roof
terrace) allowing exteriors for an area equivalent to the original empty site’s
of 1,600 square meters.
In a minor scale, the house presents itself with
simple Cartesian lines, net spaces, and rigorous studies on perforation of
vertical planes. Most details lie in the very essence of the nude concrete
applications, reflecting particular emphasis in material junctions and
encounters in order to maintain elements at a minimum.

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Paz House | House Two

Las Condes, Chile

Paz House | House Two

Las Condes, Chile

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