Casa 4 Planos | Dear Architects

With a double ulterior motive, assure the views to the surrounding mountains and provide an specific relation in between each living area and the interior outdoors, a 10m cube is placed 10m behind the street limit, inducing the division of the plot on four identical frames of 5m X 10m; such fragmentation allowed to incorporate the garden as the void that articulates the relationship between the volume of the house and the frontal volume. The character that the house transmits to the exterior is given by the sobriety of its 4 planes, which are distinguished by its change in height and the arrangement of its openings given by the relationship that each bedroom establishes with the exterior; searching for a view and an specific light-shadow effect to complete the tacit sense of inhabitance.....more