This
project hybridizes two typologies: the modern house and the industrial shed
with north light from above. The program specificity, with 4 autonomous but
interrelated units - house, guest apartment, atelier and garage- together with
the slope from the terrain design the frame where we integrated both types into
a single volume.
This
integration modified the regular use of some of the spaces of the original type
based in the new relationship with its immediate surroundings. The house does
not land on the ground but changes the relationship with it as the plan
progresses. The volume emerges from it in one of the extremes, aligns the house
with the garden in the central area and finally detaches itself in the west
side.
The open hallway
that appears in the central area where the house and the atelier merge is
designed as exterior and roofed space. It becomes the area of relationship of
the different programs and works as a climatic regulator for them.
The
energetic efficiency of the proposal and its landscape integration are two
major considerations for the constructive solution of the project. The merging
between the house and the atelier happens in such a way that every space has
double orientation, lighting and ventilation. The construction is based on a
metal corrugated plate exposed in the interior, with a thermal layer of 10cm
that covers all the volume and with an exterior finished of flexible stucco on
fiber reinforced resins. The vertical walls are made of honeycomb clay block
that reinforce the thermal insulation from the outside and increases the
interior thermal lag. In the guest apartment the thermal blanket is substituted
by a garden roof that establishes continuity between the garden and the
building and provides a similar insulation.