An exterior walkway and glazed dwelling area are hidden behind sliding slatted woodwork on this house in Chile, designed by architects Santiago Valdivieso and Stefano Rolla.
Rolla and Valdivieso accomplished the home on Punta Pite, an arm on the Central Chilean coast stretched towards the Pacific Ocean. The architects describe the home as sitting on “a rocky and stormy cliff between two small bays”.
Referred to as Engawa Home, it’s composed of a glass and black metal quantity that extends from a cliff to relaxation on slanted, daring purple helps.
Sliding, slatted doorways produced from the Chilean wooden Raulà wrap the home on three sides, giving the residents the choice of privateness and pure gentle, or to open the residence solely to the outside views.
“The thought of the mission is to generate a home that permits to work each as a refuge and because the reverse; a panorama,” mentioned the architects.
“Thus, slightly than producing a static relationship with the territory, it creates a medium for change.”
The walkway between the glazed construction and slatted wooden provides the home its title, Engawa, which is the wooden edging strip sometimes present in Japanese structure.
“This intermediate area is the primary characteristic of our mission,” Rolla added.
Matching slatted woodwork covers the pathway and offers the look that the home is a single wooden enclosure.
Rolla and Valdivieso positioned an open-plan dwelling, kitchen and eating room on the northern aspect of the home to face the ocean.
In between the kitchen and the eating and front room hangs a black wood-burning range, whereas different furnishings are equally organized within the centre of the ground to maintain the glazed partitions free.
White-painted pine wooden flooring distinction the heat of the outside wooden deck and lengthen all through this predominant quantity, which incorporates three bedrooms and loos in addition to storage organized to the south.
A black metal stair built-in into the engawa leads from a deck on the north aspect as much as the home’s rooftop terrace.
One other stone staircase on the outside of the property leads beneath the amount, the place there’s a terrace and a swimming pool.
Engawa Home is amongst a quantity not too long ago accomplished Chilean homes designed to benefit from dramatic pure settings.
Others embrace Casa Malalcahuello, which GAAA accomplished in Malalcahuell, and Prism House + Terrace Room, which Smiljan Radić accomplished close to a nationwide park.
Images is by Cristóbal Palma.
Undertaking credit:
Architect: Santiago Valdivieso, Stefano Rolla
Structural engineer: Mauricio Ahumada
Constructor: Alfredo MartÃnez
Panorama: Alejandra Marambio