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Claustro House
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Zapallar, Chile
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Claustro House
Zapallar, Chile
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2020
SIZE
3000 sqft - 5000 sqft
BUDGET
$500K - 1M
The Claustro House proposes combining different geographical and functional factors with the family's intimate and personal components in its design and location. The house's design begins with creating a courtyard and thus, reinterpreting the cloister as an architectural typology, which gives it its name. It arises from imaginaries received in previous dialogues with the family and our own research into the courtyard.
As a virtuous space, the aim is getting different ways to develop life, in this case, family and social. As a typology, the courtyard articulates the various uses and spaces of the house, communicating areas and voids in its two heights, which are connected and related by its central transparency. The house is modulated in a plan, like a perfect square, bringing the circulations to the interior perimeter and cornered towards the central courtyard. The volume becomes translucent and permeable towards the interior, leaving a private and hermetic façade towards the exterior.
The courtyard level proposes a space slightly suspended above the ground with respect to the street level, connecting the access through a bridge. This area combines the social functions, the master bedroom, and the guest room, which are privileged in height to reach the sea view.
This decision also allows the house to be used on different levels, making maintenance and heating, among other things, more effective. The lower level, more protected, houses the rest of the bedrooms and has access to the patios, parking, and garden. The project considered phased design planning, allowing the incremental growth of its surface area over time while safeguarding its volumetry and architectural image. In contrast to its hermetic and dark exterior façade, the interiors are designed to receive controlled zenithal light through the large interior courtyard, generating neutral, luminous, and warm spaces.
As a virtuous space, the aim is getting different ways to develop life, in this case, family and social. As a typology, the courtyard articulates the various uses and spaces of the house, communicating areas and voids in its two heights, which are connected and related by its central transparency. The house is modulated in a plan, like a perfect square, bringing the circulations to the interior perimeter and cornered towards the central courtyard. The volume becomes translucent and permeable towards the interior, leaving a private and hermetic façade towards the exterior.
The courtyard level proposes a space slightly suspended above the ground with respect to the street level, connecting the access through a bridge. This area combines the social functions, the master bedroom, and the guest room, which are privileged in height to reach the sea view.
This decision also allows the house to be used on different levels, making maintenance and heating, among other things, more effective. The lower level, more protected, houses the rest of the bedrooms and has access to the patios, parking, and garden. The project considered phased design planning, allowing the incremental growth of its surface area over time while safeguarding its volumetry and architectural image. In contrast to its hermetic and dark exterior façade, the interiors are designed to receive controlled zenithal light through the large interior courtyard, generating neutral, luminous, and warm spaces.
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