La Perouse Home / elton_léniz
Textual content description offered by the architects. This new city home is inserted right into a neighborhood of mid 60’s trendy structure homes in Santiago. An city space that’s distinguished by massive websites, aged timber, and spectacular views of the encircling mountains. The primary purpose of the venture is to assemble a compact and tough structure that accommodates modern life, however on the similar time safeguards the reminiscence of the city context, emphasizing the fabric dialogue and area relationships with the prevailing varieties of outdated trendy homes of the context.
Conceived as a sturdy quantity divided into three ranges, this home is organized round a central double-height corridor with a skylight and a local wood stair that connects all three ranges. On the floor stage, all the general public areas are linked by way of a sequence of wood sliding partitions that permits dividing the inside areas relying on the household’s wants. Bedrooms are positioned on the second stage with framed views of the encircling panorama, a sequence of metallic sliding panels work as a versatile pores and skin guaranteeing privateness and photo voltaic management. The basement features principally as an area for storage, wine cellars, and a multipurpose bed room that’s linked to a buried patio.
Earlier than the development and outdated current dwelling was rigorously demolished, preserving lots of the worthwhile supplies and the principal timber of the backyard. Native Alerce wooden was preserved and used within the design of sliding doorways and a 6 meters top wall that features as a visible ingredient and acoustic absorber in the primary corridor. The outside supplies have been chosen to age dramatically and present within the facades the impact of time. The second stage is completely clad with gray wooden, while for the primary stage concrete partitions, indirect pillars, black partitions, and stone terraces have been chosen to distinction with the backyard and the pure panorama of Santiago. Lastly, white brick is used within the perimeter partitions of the positioning dialoguing with the supplies of the prevailing structure of the neighboring trendy homes.
