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Architects
Pezo von Ellrichshausen -
Location
Chile -
Design Team
Mauricio Pezo, Sofía von Ellrichshausen -
Project Area
430.0 m2 -
Project Year
2011 -
Photography
Cristóbal Palma, Courtesy of Pezo von Ellrichshausen
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Collaborators
Bernhard Maurer, Eleonora Bassi, Valeria Farfan, Michael Godden -
Site Area
530 m2 -
Client
Pezo von Ellrichshausen Ltda -
Structures
Patricio Bonelli -
Construction
Ricardo Ballesta -
Plumbing
Marcelo Valenzuela -
Electrical
Jaime Tatter -
Construction System
Reinforced concrete -
Exterior Finishes
Exposed aggregate, galvanized steel framing -
Interior Finishes
concrete and painted wood, eucalyptus wood and polished slabs -
Model Photography
Ana Crovetto -
Project Photography
Cristóbal Palma
Text description provided by the architects. From the number of steps on the path up the hill, the height of an old cypress reminiscent those described by Pater, to the precise dimension that sets the podium a whole number above sea level, serve as decisive matches to explain the format of its silhouette. But the reasons that model a house are always others, always the same ones.
Within two unified formats, that of a large plan and another concentrated one, we layout the same unit twelve times: a square figure divided asymmetrically into four pieces. Sometimes central, sometimes laterally and others diagonally, each unit keeps a different relationship between the parts. Eventually, the pieces below will deal with the heavy work of the studio.
The pieces above with the almost immaterial daily routines, always devising constructions from the air to produce them later elsewhere. Between these two factual worlds, domestic life is reserved, in turn regulated by a large day room and a pair of stacked rooms for the night. The living room floor slopes towards the west. By keeping the lintels on a single horizon, the progressive sequence of frames makes their depth relative. Entering the living room is equivalent to diving under the platform of the whole number. Against a mirror that shows inside what was on the other side of the street, one arrives at the studio. To enter the tower is a form of blindness. Here, the cypress turned into board becomes locked in a continuous spiral, which with a gray melancholy, gradually returns the view while climbing.
The construction is a monolithic and regular concrete sediment with exposed aggregate. Only a slight change in the grain marks the difference between the podium and the tower. Inside, all the walls are covered by painted wood panels, barely thick and pierced by the galvanized steel frames that hold the windows.
Watch here the previously published video of Cien House, by Cristobal Palma.
