The second housing project aimed particularly at leisure and socializing in one of the condos beach south of Lima, posed the challenge of intensive temporary room and the opportunity to reinterpret a historical prototype: the Maison Domino Le Corbusier.
Building standards for small batch semi isolated 15x8 in the middle of an artificial oasis, only allowed the construction of a house of one floor ceiling living terrace to ensure the enjoyment of the "essential joys": sun, space, vegetation and the view over the desert landscape between the Isle of Asia and coastal foothills of the Andes.
Recreational use of the housing that make owners and guests during the summer weekends contrasts with minimal use of the rest of the year, so the program should facilitate stratification opposed nature of the project: External summer and intimate winter. Thus, the proportion of public places are distributed hierarchically in the expanded mode from the roof terrace to the basement, where the intermediate level of the minimum first floor room module for proper operation in compact mode.
The location of the lot, far from the beach and surrounded by a grove , gives some natural privacy to its occupants project allowing greater transparency in their enclosures, more consistent with the open character of its owners and the need to have a passive thermal management system that runs through the sunlight and ventilation control of mass concrete .
The rational expression that conveys the order modulated structure of columns and beams of iron and concrete slabs lightened and side cladding elements are balanced with the organic expression of the spiral staircase . Vertical circulation element that takes center stage in contrast, as an object of poetic resonance reaction marina . A counterpoint between orthogonality and sinuous.
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