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Architects: Undurraga Devés Arquitectos
- Area: 460 m²
- Year: 2007
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Photographs:Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma
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Manufacturers: Duromarmol, GLASSTECH, Melón Hormigones
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Construction: M3 Constructors, Jaime Rios
Text description provided by the architects. In the history of architecture, there does not exist an architype so prevelent as the organization of living spaces around a patio. Unfolding over different civilizations, the typology of the patio house traces back to Asia in the year 3000 a.c., specifically in China and India. The Greeks, in the IV and V centuries, contributed major developments to the evolution of the model and influenced the understanding of the mediterranian patio house introduced to the Americas with the arrival of the Spanish. The house presented uses the historical sediment as its inspirtation and redefines the model in a contemporary manner.
