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Ensenada House / Paralelo Transversal

Valentina Díaz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Ensenada House: A Great Roof Suspended over the Landscape

2L House / Labbe Portugueis Architects

Valentina Díaz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:58:00 +0000

Situated on a gentle slope within a clearing bordering the sea, the house is built around a cluster of existing coihue trees, opening radially to the sun and distant views.

New Low-E Technology and Its Impact on Energy Efficiency

Camila Prieto — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:39:00 +0000

The search for technological innovations that promote passive strategies has become key to advancing energy efficiency in architecture. Low-E technology emerges as a new concept in glass, providing the material with thermal control capabilities. What does this new technology entail? The Low-E concept refers to low-emissivity glass—meaning glass whose surface emits a smaller proportion of thermal radiation at a given temperature. This feature increases its insulation capacity, thereby reducing the amount of heat lost through it.

Cazú Zegers, Among the 30 Most Powerful Women in Chile According to Forbes

Isidora Tscherebilo — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:14:00 +0000

With the goal of highlighting Chilean women who embody female empowerment, Forbes magazine has compiled a list of the 30 most influential women in the country today. The selection is based on key attributes such as leadership, public inspiration, and an ongoing contribution to shaping a more gender-equitable nation.

The 50 Best Houses of 2023

Benjamin Zapico — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:56:00 +0000

ArchDaily's curatorial team strives every day to present our readers with the most significant, inspiring, and innovative projects, while also ensuring a diverse representation of global architecture.

House MM / EXTCO

Valeria Silva — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:56:00 +0000

The Work is located in the south of Chile in the city of Puerto Varas, which is a very rainy area with a humid climate. The assignment consisted of a single-family home on a plot of land with a complex geometry at the time of the program being finalized. The morphology of the house is born as a result of the possibility of inhabiting the land on a single floor.

Casanova Renovation / Monolito Arquitectos

Valeria Silva — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:32:00 +0000

The project consists of the transformation of a large single-family house, designed in 1970 at the foothills of the Santiago Andes and originally planned for a family with five children, into a residential or boutique hotel project where all rooms have independence from the common and circulation spaces, designed to host guests or married family members with children for extended periods.

Ema House / Monolito Arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:31:00 +0000

Located on Lake Riñihue in southern Chile, on the steep northern slope of a hill with spectacular views, the challenge of this house began with creating a project fully oriented toward the south to capture the best views, while simultaneously taking advantage of the limited natural light received from the north. Consequently, the house is configured around courtyards and exterior elements that naturally illuminate the interior through its rear facade.

CZ House / Lucas Maino Fernandez

Andreas Luco — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:25:00 +0000

CZ House is located in the fifth region in the commune of Rocas De Santo Domingo, set on a simple lot recently incorporated into the urban area, resulting in a site that borders the rural and the semi-urban. The subdivision is longer than it is wide, with a clear north-south orientation, and is conditioned by neighboring lots of similar characteristics to both the east and west.

El Aromo House / Duarte Fournies Arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:35:00 +0000

The project involves the renovation of a single-family home built in 1970, located in the municipality of Vitacura, Santiago, Chile, on a 392 m² lot. The site, measuring 14 m wide by 28 m deep, features a building centered on the property, which creates a front yard facing the street and a backyard at the rear of the site.

Shelter S01 / Hebra Arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:35:00 +0000

Seeking to build the bare minimum, the most efficient, and a simple architecture that requires little maintenance, Hebra Shelter S01 was conceived.

Water, mining, and exodus: the landscape consequences of extractive activities in northern Chile

Belén Maiztegui — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:40:00 +0000

La serie titulada Agua, minería y éxodo forma parte de una investigación visual llevada adelante por el fotógrafo Marcos Zegers que explora las tensiones culturales y las alteraciones territoriales derivadas de las actividades mineras y extractivas en el desierto de Atacama.

Chile's New Preschools and Learning Through Architecture

Felipe Fernández — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:20:00 +0000

Preschool is more than just a place to leave young children; it is a space that allows them to connect with their imagination and senses through the colors, textures, and layout of their environment. In Chile, many architects have committed to translating these learning opportunities into the architecture itself.

Huerquehue Refuge / DRAA

Valentina Díaz — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The Rock Shelter. We took on this commission a couple of years ago because the clients, a couple well-versed in the ideas of Byung-Chul Han, wanted a cabin in the woods that met at least two requirements: to resist a forest fire (at least partially) and to disappear into the landscape.

Grandparents' House / Stanaćev Granados

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000

A retired German couple commissioned us to design a house where they could spend several months each year, close to their grandchildren and able to enjoy family life at a slower pace. They wanted the house to be economical to build, comfortable, and full of light, while also functioning well as a vacation rental during the periods when they would not be in residence.

Above Water, Slope, and Forest: Elevated Architecture in Latin America

Daniela Andino — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:30:00 +0000

In Latin America, the ground is rarely just a surface to build on. It can be a river edge, a steep slope, a humid forest floor, a floodable landscape, or a territory under ecological pressure, and in many cases, it carries a history of communities that already knew how to respond to it, building on stilts, on platforms, over water, long before contemporary architecture asked the same questions.

House on the Cautín River / Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

The commission came to us unexpectedly, after the client discarded a project they had started to build that same year. From this first attempt, they kept a steel platform on pile foundations, which provided us with a forced starting point for the project's position, which, by the way, was quite good, in a natural clearing of the forest, strategically surrounded by a meander of the Cautín River, with excellent views and sunlight.

House CO / Estudio Base Arquitectos

Valentina Díaz — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000

The CO House, located in Santo Domingo, Chile, was born out of the necessity of a couple looking to settle on the coast with a versatile and flexible home. The design aimed to balance the comfort for the daily use of two people with the ability to comfortably accommodate ten occupants during certain periods of the year, prioritizing functional flexibility.