House for a painter
An isolated house is a set of two self-built volumes, one gabled and the other added later. The juxtaposition between both generated a single compact but very distributed enclosure in which the walls did not load but divided. The premise of eliminating everything that was not structurally served as a starting point for designing a new home for a painter, away from the city and open to the landscape.
Through the simplification of the main parts: living room, kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom, the whole was reduced to a series of generic spaces connected through doors, but there were also gaps in its boundaries. The location of a series of openings perpendicular to the perimeter walls established continuous visuals from the entrance door to the rear terrace. To these interior visual paths, a series of interior elements were added as furniture to generate continuity between enclosures, one of concrete between the kitchen and the entrance and a wood one between the bedroom and the living room.
In one corner, a convex fireplace is placed at the end of a series of shelves that give continuity to the bathroom furniture. This gesture opens the fire's warmth to the house's main space and gives it prominence. In contrast, the kitchen countertop is made of concrete, and the cabinets are made of stainless steel to convey a raw and industrial feeling and a great openness in front of the oak forest.
Finally, the whole house is closed with perforated steel shutters that increase the perceptive sensation of the house as isolated and autonomous architecture. A white object that lights up at night.
