Measuring 3,336 square feet, this 2012 project was designed to accommodate both a social and private, family oriented lifestyle.
“The main challenge of this house was making a ‘primary residence’ compatible with the context and environment of a vacation house’. There were two basic requests at the beginning of the design process:
- The house should be able to facilitate an intense social life with relatives and friends, adults and kids
- At the same time, it has to be able to house ordinary family life, with all the intimacy and privacy that involves”.
“Hacienda Los Aromas is a private urbanization 20Km away from the central Chilean coast. The lots spread along the peninsula, surrounded by the ‘Embaise Los Aromos’, a regional water reservoir, which is also used for recreational purposes”.
“The building site is a 5.000 sqm, continuous 30ยบ slopped lot, facing east, with great views towards the local mountains and over the reservoir. The first step was to build a large platform by means of a zigzag concrete retaining wall, which provides resistance but also allows oriented views”.
On principle, the house was ‘made in place’ with materials used to sustain significant abuse, so it would ‘age’ and not merely be ‘ruined’ over the time.
40m3 of recycled 2" red oak was used from demolitions nearby. “The wood was scraped off and used primarily as the outer covering of exterior ventilated walls. The best pieces were used in the interior as exposed timber and upper level flooring”. With the shorter ones stairs, interior veneer, doors, guardrails, and kitchen and bathrooms countertops were made.
“Lower level paving runs all along the house, even in the kitchen and bathrooms, and is made our of polished quartz stained concrete”.
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