Pachacamac House / Longhi Architects

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• Architects

  Longhi Architects

• Location

  Pachacamac, Peru

• Category

  Houses

• 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.

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A glass box sticks out of the hill symbolizing architectural intervention on untouched nature.

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