![Cerro la Cruz House / Turner Arquitectos - Exterior Photography, Facade, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5d7f/e235/284d/d15e/5d00/0439/newsletter/_FI.jpg?1568662057)
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Architects: Turner Arquitectos
- Area: 4284 ft²
- Year: 2018
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Photographs:Nicolás Saieh
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Manufacturers: European Windows, MK
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Lead Architects: Patrick Turner, Josefina Vergara
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Text description provided by the architects. The topography of the site on which the Loma La Cruz House is emplaced, presents a significant height difference between the street and the front lawn. Such difference was used as a design advantage to create a solemn ascent towards the main entrance raising the ground floor and hence, making the house appear higher than it really is.
![Cerro la Cruz House / Turner Arquitectos - Interior Photography, Table, Beam, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5d7f/e2e4/284d/d194/ee00/0183/medium_jpg/9.jpg?1568662221)
The house closes itself to the south and opens itself almost completely towards the north, facing the best views of the hills and also receiving the best natural light.
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From the street, the house presents itself as a grand stone wall. It´s scale and brutalist character reveals a glympse of what to experience inside. A triple height hallway placed transversely in the center of the house directs to the main rooms toward the north and to the secondary ones towards the south.
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From this hallway many patios and large vertical windows are seen, all of them in noble materials like concrete, stone, and holm oak. The main living room and terrace form a square of very precise supports and closures, which diffuses the limit between the interior and the exterior.
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