This house is located at Colico Lake, at the South of Chile. The project develops the theme of colonization in a territory where nature manifests itself with extraordinary force.
It is in this essentially geographical scenario that the categorical volume of the house was built. The formal simplicity and rigor of the project were intended as means to achieve abstraction and establish a counterpoint with the landscape.
Concomitantly, glass and steel were used in order to create lightness, transparence, and the impression of merging into the trees growing in the area. The aim was to allow the dwellers to be in contact with nature even while inside the house.
Three glass-encased green patios have been carefully laid out in the open plant, dividing it into different living areas. Vegetation in the patios has been intended as a means to articulate inner space with nature. Additionally, a stone ‘service wall’ was built to provide support to the ‘crystal box’. This wall connects us to the earth and to remote history, in opposition to the steel and glass, which connect us to modernity.
