Beach House Design | Los Molles House | Cachagua | V Region | Chile | dRN

The irony of not having direct view of the ocean on a seaside house appears as a possibility for orienting this beach house towards a more unexpected landscape. The open horizon of the Pacific has been replaced by the view the near hillsides to the west, and to the protected space defined by a group of preexisting trees. This independent backyard, isolated from the intense summer life of the beach town of Cachagua, offers a calmed retreat to take distance from the city. Here, the close relation to topography stimulates spontaneous exterior circulations between rooms, giving the same relevance to the interior life of the house as to the exterior events, trying to enhance the informal condition of the beach house and the possibility of a life “outdoors”......more

Beach House on A Hillslope | La Baronia House | V Region | Chile | dRN

The corroding power of the salty breeze coming from the Pacific Ocean can wear out an unprotected structure in a short period of time. Here the braking waves are not a romantic vision of nature but a very crude reality of the temporal condition of architecture. The project offers a delay of that imminent decay by building a weathered protection of corten steel and an interior structure of bolted wooden frames. The interior organization offers possibilities of flexible uses through out time and close relation between spaces.......more