The commission was for a second home to invite friends and family and at the same time have a space for a stoneware ceramics workshop. The house, of 320 m2 of interior surface and 55 m2 of terrace, was designed on two floors, with the first floor housing the guest bedrooms, with bathroom and storage room, while the second floor houses the master bedroom, a living room, living-dining-kitchen, loggia, garage and the ceramic workshop. From the access, after a small hallway, there is a staircase that leads down to the lower level, and then a corridor that leads to three guest bedrooms on one side, while on the other, it faces a slope, to obtain north light. Then, on the second level, towards the south, a terrace was generated under an eave that spans the entire length, and allows three windows, each two meters long, to open generously towards the landscape.
The objective of the proposal was the link with the landscape in terms of views, perception of the exterior volumetry and materialities. For this, the volume
was placed at the highest point of the site in two oblique arms at such a height that they face the canopy of the native trees that surround the site. The second floor was designed as a plinth, which follows the topographic break in the terrain and generates a change in level. This, built in reinforced concrete, was clad with stones from the site. The aim was to generate a continuity with the exterior piers in order to have a continuous reading of the landscape with the house. Certain pavements and a footprint for the car were also covered with these stones.
The second floor was clad in vertically arranged oak and burned with the Shou-Sugi-Ban technique. For the meeting between the two levels, a flange was generated in the slab that evidences the presence of reinforced concrete and the change of materiality. As for the roof, the highest point was taken at the intersection of the arms, above the common area of the floor plan, and then lowered towards the ends in the form of a triangle, seeking a predominance of horizontality and demure reading in the volume.
The main entrance, which has a door built with a red metal frame and glass, together with an exposed reticulated beam in a window of the living room, more than seven meters long, generate a distinctive seal and a certain industrial air, typical of the steel structure construction of the second level. On the first level, a reinforced concrete "V" supports the slab on the east side, also seeking to express the structural nature of this cement-based material.
The interior of the entire house sought warmth, for which we used mainly wood paneling: alamo on the floor, olivillo on the ceiling and coigüe for the doors of the furniture made on site.