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Architects
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Location
Pachacamac, Peru -
Principal In Charge
Luis Longhi -
Collaborators
Hector Suasnabar, Christian Bottger, Carla Tamariz, Veronica Schreibeis -
Construction
Longhi Architects / Hector Suasnabar -
Area
5000.0 m2 -
Project Year
2008
Text description provided by the architects. A hill in Pachacamac, located 40 km south of Lima near Peru's coast, is the site for the retirement home of a philosopher.
The response to the site's conditions was to bury the house, trying to create a balanced dialogue between architecture and landscape, where inside / outside becomes a constant interpretation of materiality with strong sense of protection and appreciation of the dark and the light.
A glass box sticks out of the hill symbolizing architectural intervention on untouched nature.
