Los Cóndores Retreat / Duque Motta & AA

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Text description provided by the architects. The commission consisted of the remodelling and the expansion of a small family retreat in Farellones, a mountain village in the Andes Mountains, next to Santiago. The architecture and landscaping of Farellones have strong influences of European mountain architecture and American modernism of the mid-nineteenth century. The building in question is a faithful reflection of this identity, both in material and formal terms, with a stone plinth of local stones that adapts to the topography of the terrain, a wooden upper structure with a large window that opens towards the view, a dominating suspended terrace and a metallic monopitch roof.