A two-home complex.
The Site: two adjacent plots of 14 mts. length by 36 mts. depth each, with the back facing North. The site has a continuous slant of 4 mts. from front to back.
The restrictions: The housing complex establishes restrictions of open space: 6 mts. to the front, which faces the lake; 7 mts. in the back (adjacent to the golf course); and 5 mts. alongside the lateral common border of both plots of land.
The requirements: DASA house required continuous open spaces, a complete physical and visual communication with exterior areas.
DATRI house required more spread out spaces, partitioned and differentiated from one another.
The challenge: designing two weekend houses for two brothers with different tastes and requirements who shared an objective: common use of exterior areas.
The proposal: design two home complex.
We chose as our volumetric model of reference the traditional country house with two-tiered water rooftop.
After the variables were analyzed the decision was made to symmetrically split the initial volumetric scheme. Afterwards, each of the construction volumes were pushed to the opposing long ends of the plot in order to create a central common area.
As a result and in order to give definition to each of the houses, we began to develop the architecture of each construction. Operations used for this were simple (subtracting, stretching, separating and dividing).
The operations not only defined the interior spaces of the houses, but through their manipulation we sought to give form to the space between them: the common outdoor space. This was accomplished with the use of overhangs for second floors of both homes at the same time as taking advantage of the topography of the land by which four outdoor terraces were created to absorb and take advantage of the natural slant in the land.
Two in one weekend house that shares outdoor areas.