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Architects: Estudio M+N
- Year: 2013
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Photographs:Gonzalo Viramonte
Text description provided by the architects. The project was to modify an old house from the early twentieth century, which operated as an inn since the 1940s, into a small hotel with 10 rooms, trying to take advantage of the limited free area.
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The hotel was conceived as an overlay operation, a new perimeter structure, which considered the vacant spaces, as well as articulated the original mansion with extensions of lower quality than had been added over time.
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New spaces and programs from a skeleton of reinforced concrete, which resolved in a single piece the entrance hall and a pool on its roof, leaving small courtyards and slivers of light so that the original body of the old building is always highlighted. Covering this structure, we developed a metal structure that runs a network of iron construction for a wisteria facade, while it advances on the terrace of flat volumes, forming decks and expansion places where you can appreciate the scenery dominated by the Uritorco hill.
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The project is designed in the interstices of the courtyards and two structures of concrete that solve the access to the house and the metal structure, which emerges as a calligraphic geometry in dialogue with the shapes of the steep roofs of the old inn.
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There is a desire to build the atmosphere of a dilapidated garden, made of rusted iron and vines, that through it, leads to the discovery of the most shadowy spaces of the house.
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Time, like tension in the plot of the fluid path of interior and exterior spaces, built with an austere atmosphere and raw materiality, a collage made of reused floors, fixtures and furniture from the demolition, dislocating the parts, the vestiges of other times in shaping the contemporary.
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The entire project has the characteristics of an unfinished work, which will keep changing its looks and program, which will remain implied in a continuous play without return.
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The interior landscape is completed with the presence of the guests, who are seduced, symmetrically, to the beginnings of the twentieth century, in the old mountain inn.
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