Claro-Grossetete House in Colina, Santiago by Juan Carlos Sabbagh Arquitectos

Article source: Juan Carlos Sabbagh Arquitectos

The project consists of a single family house located in Chicureo, a very hot zone in summer, which is why the starting point of the project was to take over the climate issue.

Because of this, the house was designed in only one level and is based in courtyards to protect it with the shadows of the trees and being close to the soil moisture.

View from north, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

• Architects: Juan Carlos Sabbagh Arquitectos
• Project: Claro-Grossetete House
• Location: Hacienda Chicureo, Colina, Santiago
• Photography: Francisca Polanco
• Structural Engineer: INGEVSA (Eduardo Valenzuela)
• Builder: Constructora Alcoy
• Heating Engineer: Nat Clima
• Electrical Engineer: Concha & Gana
• Lighting Design: Oriana Ponzini
• Domotics: Home Control S.A.
• Landscape Design: Piera Sartori
• Soil mechanics: GEOFUN

View from west, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

• Building Inspector: Ramon Goldsack Y Asociados
• Sanitary installations: Jose Giaretti
• Site Area: 2383 sqm
• Constructed Area: 412 sqm
• Design year: 2007
• Construction year: 2008-2009
• Principal materials: Concrete, stone, wood

View from south west, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

Also were incorporated stone walls that having mass and contribute to the protection of the interior of the house from the high insolation from the west.

Architecturally the house is a series of slabs that form horizontal layers containing planters and the roof. These are perforated slabs supported on walls of exposed concrete or stone.

Entrance, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

Two of these stone walls break the roof slab and emerge in height to allow the appearance of the two main courtyards of the house that integrate the landscape inside, bringing light, sunlight in winter, ventilation in the summer and also configure the interior program.

In this way the house is divided into two areas, the most public area and services (such as living room, kitchen) and the private area (of bedrooms and family room).

View from north, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

To the east are the bedrooms looking for mountain views and morning sun. To the north the main living and dining areas are protected by a large covered terrace and facing the golf court. On both fronts eaves protects from rain and sun.

By contrast, there is no westward eaves, but to protect from sun and blend in with the environment, the facade is opaque and conformed by a large stone wall which is interrupted intermittently like the semi demolished “pircas” of the surrounding fields.

Corridor for the bedrooms, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

View from north (showing east-facing bedrooms), Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

View from south (showing east-facing bedrooms),Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

Corridor for the bedrooms, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

Living room, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

View from north, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

Terrace, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

View from entrance hall, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

Living room, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

Terrace, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

View from entrance hal, Image Courtesy © Francisca Polanco

Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Sabbagh Arquitectos

Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Sabbagh Arquitectos

Image Courtesy © Juan Carlos Sabbagh Arquitectos

Tags: Colina, Hacienda Chicureo, Santiago

Category: House

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