#CL STUDIO SITERIP WINDOWS#
Living, kitchen and dining rooms are all integrated into a single space, enclosed by large windows at two sides. The other, not as tall but twice as wide, became the children’s play/study room. One piece became the entrance hall/gallery space -almost 5 meters tall and lit from the sky - that showcases the client’s incipient art collection. The needed corridor was then broken, displaced and distorted, for the pieces not to resemble a corridor and allow other uses than the obvious one.
#CL STUDIO SITERIP SERIES#
Ironically, because of the nature of the chain-link layout, a corridor was actually needed to connect each space without having to resort to a Versailles-style series of connecting rooms. To address this idea, the design was to deliberately avoid creating one-purpose-only spaces, like corridors. As we saw it, the main difference between a holiday home and a regular one is lack of definition in the program’s boundaries. The clients wanted a beach house feel for their home. Next to the kitchen a covered terrace was added to allow for the husband’s preference for grilling –no matter the season or weather. This gives the parents a certain level of independence once the children are older. Also, because they had been living in an apartment for quite a while they felt very strongly that everything should fit onto a single floor.Ī chain-like sequence of rooms became the logical layout for the house, where all of the common areas sit at the center of the chain with the couple’s master bedroom at one end and the children’s and guest rooms at the other. A room without a view -no matter its purpose- was unacceptable. Reasonably, the view of the landscape became the house’s raison d'etre. The time lost however allowed us to get to know the couple much better, so by the end of the design phase the final project was tailor-made for them in a way that otherwise wouldn’t be possible. The program increase forced us to scrap any previous schemes we had fiddled with and start over. By then, the couple already had their first child and was expecting their second. Two years later the road was done and the pieces in place for the project to resume.
#CL STUDIO SITERIP HOW TO#
In the meanwhile, we were tasked with figuring out how to build a road on the hill without either destroying it or bankrupting the client. The clients were in no rush for the house to be built, so for a time the project was halted for them to put together the money for construction. Amazing unobstructed views of the Chicureo valley, however, made it more than worth the effort. On top of a steep hill, no road to reach it, with all the utilities’ network down below, the plot posed quite a challenge. They had fallen in love with the beautiful setting of a small community on the outskirts of Santiago. Concrete, steel, glass, fibercement boards.Īt the beginning of 2012 a young couple approached our practice for a house.
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