Aguas Claras House

Zapallar, Chile

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Aguas Claras House

Zapallar, Chile

Firm

Alfredo Comandari Architects

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2015

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

$100K - 500K

Although the owners already had a house in nearby Lomas Blancas, they were looking for a place where they could build something more private and away from the public’s eye. After a while searching they found, near the locality of Cachagua, a sloped piece of land located in the midst of a eucalyptus forest. It possessed the perfect qualities to attain such intimacy.

In this regard, after getting to know the place and request, the first intention was to separate the house’s different areas in a way that allowed us to maintain the intimacy of each space and to reduce the impact on the surrounding forest, locating the volumes in those places less occupied by the trees. Starting with this idea, a central volume was drawn, alongside two other diagonal volumes that prevent the view from directing to other properties. This way, the house looks simultaneously upon itself and the forest, integrating organically into the landscape, and maintaining a dialogue, through its own geometry, with its surroundings.

The three volumes are separated by glass galleries that overlook exterior gardens; this way the different spaces can function both independently, as well as in interconnection. Each volume possesses its own character and autonomy. At the center we located a common space with an integrated living room, dining room, and kitchen, on one of the wings four bedrooms with two bathrooms and a sheltered terrace, and, on the other wing, the main bedroom with its own bathroom.

The entire house is facing north. Great floor-to-ceiling windows and slanted roofs seek the light, creating intimate and luminous interior spaces that open and focus on the natural environment. For this same reason, the decision was made to locate the deck and pool on the backside of the house, allowing the interior spaces to always face a natural landscape without an architectural intervention.

The exterior materiality is composed of a black and opaque micro-undulated steel sheet that enables the house to be hidden within the forest and grants it a more hermetic and industrial look. For the inside, warm materials with a subtly white-washed wood were used, creating cozy spaces. The pallet is, generally speaking, achromatic, with some primary colored elements; the exterior contour, on the other hand, is black in order to trace the house’s geometrical silhouette.

The decoration was seen to from the very beginning together with visual artist Juan Pablo Larraín, son of the owners of the house, who, from Berlin, contributed with his own personal style, primary and elemental. He chose the combinations and furniture so they could be sent in to be designed. This allowed us to produce a project that was integrated and coherent in its architecture, interior design and decoration.

Traced with contemporary lines, and decorated with a minimalist style, this house in Aguas Claras is hermetic on the outside, but luminous and warm within its walls, holding its own identity, without excess, and totally integrated with the surrounding landscape.

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Aguas Claras House

Zapallar, Chile

Aguas Claras House

Zapallar, Chile

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