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Casa RIMA / Cristián Romero Valente

Andreas Luco — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000

Located on the coast of Los Vilos, in northern Chile, this residence is conceived as a refuge in close dialogue with the landscape. The aim was to create architecture that frames the horizon and allows the sound of the sea to be heard, while providing shelter from the southern winds characteristic of the area. This intention defined both the site placement and the use of a continuous wall that protects the interior spaces without interrupting the full opening toward the ocean.

House EP / LOTE STUDIO + Ignacio Ferreira

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000

The project is located in the Punta Hueso sector on the Chilean coast, in the Coquimbo region. The area is characterized by abundant endemic vegetation facing a coastline of high cliffs. The project was conceived considering geographic components such as slope movements and the connection with the outside. To this end, a curved roof was proposed that interacts with the slope of the hill, generating a new spatial quality. Additionally, a proposal for peripheral corridors on three levels was developed to allow for a connection with the local flora.

CR House / LOTE STUDIO + Ignacio Ferreira

Andreas Luco — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000

The work is located on the coastal edge of Punta Hueso, Coquimbo region, Chile. It is a site where the coast, rocky formations, and the characteristic medium/low-height vegetation of the northern region prevail. The project is designed based on a grid of nine quadrants composed of eight peripheral wooden quadrants and one central circular concrete quadrant, which rises to serve as the access to the house through what we call a sculptural element, a project in itself like the spiral staircase. The house is elevated to protect the local flora in preservation while enhancing the completely unobstructed 360-degree views of its surroundings.

Guest House 8q / 3370 Studio

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 06 May 2019 12:30:00 +0000

The "Guest House" consists of three independent glazed volumes and a technical volume joined by a large ventilated roof. The separation of the volumes responds to the order that was to design a house to receive guests, so the house can receive a guest who could only spend the afternoon enjoying the place or could stay for one or several nights occupying only part or the whole house

How Chilean Architects Are Helping Realize Ryue Nishizawa's Curving Concrete Cliffside House

Pola Mora — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 08:00:00 +0000

The Ochoalcubo project, a pioneering experiment led by the entrepreneur and architecture lover Eduardo Godoy that seeks to unite leading Chilean and Japanese architecture practices with ground-breaking architecture, has started a new phase. Made up of 8 phases which involve 8 different architects, the first stage of this architecture laboratory took place in Marbella and included work from Christian de Groote, Mathias Klotz, Cristián Valdés, José Cruz, Teodoro Fernández, Cecilia Puga, Smiljan Radic and Sebastián Irarrázabal. Toyo Ito was the first international figure to participate in the project with the construction of the White O House in 2009.

Four Programs Pavilion / Felipe Assadi + Francisca Pulido

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 09:00:00 +0000

The commission was for a pavilion bordering a tennis court that could handle four programs in the following order: sauna, gymnasium, baths, and lodgings for a caretaker.

Bahia Azul House / Felipe Assadi + Francisca Pulido

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 11:00:00 +0000

The house in Bahía Azul is a stance towards designing on a slope.

Painting Studio in Bahia Azul / Felipe Assadi + Francisca Pulido

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:00:00 +0000

The painter's studio has been erected to one side of a house in Bahía Azul. A small space, it appears to be a prolongation of the terrain when seen from the entrance, but from the slope it stands out as a piece embedded in the hillside.

Japanese and Chilean Architects Collaborate to Design Houses for the Ochoalcubo Project

James Taylor-Foster — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Ochoalcubo (Eight-Cubed) is a pioneering project in Chile that seeks to unite leading Chilean and Japanese practices with ground-breaking architecture. The collaborative enterprise was started by Eduardo Godoy, a design impresario who began working in Chile in the 1980s and who has always been a strong advocate for innovative design and architecture in the country. For a nation that boasts more than forty individual schools of architecture, the ever growing number of professionals seems to have had a relatively small impact on Chilean cities. Faced with the seemingly infinite landscape of 'cookie-cutter housing' in the suburbs, Godoy implemented Ochoalcubo in order to provide opportunities for young professionals, alongside fostering a new kind of appreciation for the profession itself. With a large number of architects having taken part in the first stage, including Smiljan Radic (designer of the 2014 Serpentine Pavilion), the third and fourth stage of what is certainly one of the world's largest active architectural laboratories will be launched in the coming days.

Casa OchoQuebradas / ELEMENTAL

Rory Stott — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Elemental's design for Casa OchoQuebradas draws on the rugged landscape of its site, a cliff on the coast of Chile, to create a rugged, even primitive weekend house design of concrete volumes. Inspired by their idea that "a weekend house is ultimately a kind of retreat where people allowed themselves to suspend the conventions of life and go back to a more essential living," the house is a simple composition which incorporates such features as a main room which can be opened up to the outdoors and a central open fire.

Flashback: Casa Do / Cazú Zegers

Igor Fracalossi — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000

A way of living inside two curving walls that shelter like a womb, over looking the vastness of the pacific ocean, on the northern shores of Chile the project surges from the mandate of a house to be used as a resting place, during weekends, summer vacations, etc. It is located on a family owned terrain, where other house, of different styles, already existed.