Beautiful holiday home

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Malalcahuello, Araucanía. The proposal for this holiday home was to accommodate 12 people (a family and their guests), who would share two common spaces: a central open space for the whole family and a more informal room for the younger ones. In addition, he had to consider two shared bathrooms, storerooms, utility compartments and a master plan that would allow controlled access to some unique spots on the site. Finally, the commission had to reuse a steel and wood platform that had been executed in a previously unsuccessful construction attempt.

The platform that we recycled defined the plan and position of the house at the tip of the peninsula within a clearing in the forest, at the same time allowing to resolve part of the program, contemplating two double rooms at the ends, an open space. common in the center (dining room-kitchen), the two bathrooms, chiflonera, entrance hall and covered terrace with built-in barbecue

We organized the ground floor program in order to take advantage of the views, contemplating two perpendicular axes that cross the house and allow views at their ends towards the four cardinal points. Thus, a corridor on the east-west axis ends in windows facing the river, while the central space opens to the north (sun) and south (river and hill). In this way, the sun enters the house at different times of the day, allowing exceptional control of the environment and its views.

On the second floor we have a large bedroom with 8 bunk beds on the sides, which share a central space to house the activities of the youngest.

Finally, we developed a series of platforms that skirt the existing trees to approach different corners of the landscape. These platforms allow access to the house and its surroundings regardless of weather conditions and include a walkway that connects the house to the garage, a large deck that ends in a wooden pool overlooking the river and a second deck that enters the forest under enormous trees and leads to the river and a hot tub.

The order was resolved through an archetypal silhouette that, on the one hand, stands out from the nature in which it is immersed, but at the same time does not want to draw attention because it refers to the architecture that has always been present in the place.