Article source: Estudio Diagonal Architects

Looking for new ways to traditional barn-house is one of the most common exercises in contemporary architecture practice, and even one of the most applied in the south of Chile.

It takes massive attention in the last internal migration, due to the pandemic of covid-19, which open the door to work from home so a lot of people from big cities, like Santiago the capital, migrate south for a better life. One of the most selected cities, for better or worse, was Puerto Varas, in Llanquihue province.

Image Courtesy © Nico Saieh

• Architects: Estudio Diagonal Architects
• Project: Ridge House
• Location: Los Lagos, Chile
• Photography: Nico Saieh
• Project size: 120 m2
• Site size: 5000 m2
• Building levels: 2
• Completion date: 2022

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