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Architects: Irene Escobar Doren
- Area: 95 m²
- Year: 2011
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Photographs:Cristián Dominguez
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Manufacturers: Arauco
Text description provided by the architects. This house is located on the coast plane of Puertecillo, a small village of algae recollectors and fishermen. The site, located on a brook overflow area, was bought by four friends to establish a community. This implied liberating ground area as much as possible to let the overflow water run freely when necessary; and to leave available space for landscape interactions between the houses. This way, the first approach to the project consisted in raising the house on piles, condensing de house plan in two levels and a terrace on the roof; and solving the interior space in a compact volume whose dimensions were determined by the optimization of the chosen building material.
