Palo Quemado House
Located on a steep southern slope, the project faces the challenge of capturing the view towards the Lago Ranco bead on its southern façade, while still receiving sunlight on its northern façade. The clients, a couple in their fifties along with three daughters in their twenties, wanted a house with a high-rise common area, and on the other hand four bedrooms, one master and three for each of the daughters and to receive visitors from time to time.
The initial approach was two squares rotated at 45º to each other, leaving in one of these the kitchen with the dining room and living room, along with a terrace facing south. In its double height, a walkway that leads to a space that functions as a TV room and telecommuting space, is crossed by a prefabricated metal shelf that contains a wine cellar in its lower part, while its upper part contains books and decoration. To the north, two-and-a-half-meter-high glass panels are placed above the kitchen space so that, in addition to letting in sunlight, they are open to generate cross ventilation. To the south, a three-meter deep terrace is contained under a mezzanine.
As for the volume of the bedrooms, they were designed with a double bed at the base and two beds above it, which cross from side to side, to allow flexibility in their use.
The service area and access were designed as a different volume, curved and clad in black wood, to generate a contrast and not interrupt the volumetry of the two faceted parallelepipeds that face the lake basin.
In search of a relationship with the site, native woods were used: hualle oak for the exterior and interior cladding and coigüe for the doors of the furniture in the common areas.
