Sumit Singhal Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCE IN Tunquén, Chile BY CO2 Arquitectos
August 19th, 2014 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: CO2 Arquitectos
The House of Tunquén is situated at an intermediate level that occurs at a terrain with a slight slope facing the North front of the Casablanca stream wetland. The house is intended as a decomposing horizontal block eventually converting into a forest.
The private enclosures are lifted up from the ground with the purpose of leveling everything over the depth of the natural landscape and can be accessed by a gallery surrounded by a section of native vegetation.
This gallery links all throughout the house and its different levels while maintaining a continuous sky at the same level for the interior space/area to receive height and catch the vertical elements of the forest.
The public sector opens up to the landscape through large panes of glass while changing the supporting structure of the solid walls to pine columns of 20 cm diameter, whose green impregnation is accentuated with the purpose of generating a visual continuity with the outside forest. This is reinforced with two large corner windows between the living room and the terrace which can be hidden by sliding to the side generating a continuous sight and the idea of “taking the outside inside”, in both ways space and experience.
The space and enclosure of the social areas is organized in a way which intends to welcome the event of family meetings and resting in a sequence of different conditions: winter/summer, inside/outside, day/night, between being-eating-cooking, this is the event, the celebration of the events themselves.
The terrace is supported by columns from which canvases are hanging, creating the feeling of being on the deck of a caravel.
A concrete wall of mid-rise is put up to protect the outdoor dining area from the wind and also houses a barbecue. This wall generates the boundary of the house symbolizing at the same time the bow which directs the view to the ocean.
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