Architects:
Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects Location:
Concepcion, Chile Client:
Pezo von Ellrichshausen Ltda Collaborators:
Bernhard Maurer, Eleonora Bassi, Valeria Farfan, Michael Godden Structure:
Patricio Bonelli Construction:
Ricardo Ballesta Sanitary project:
Marcelo Valenzuela Electrical project:
Jaime Tatter Project Year:
2011 Project Area:
430 sqm Photographs:
Cristobal Palma
Decisive
coincidences such as the amount of steps on a hill path nearby, or the
elevation above sea level that defines the podium, can be used to
explain the format of this building’s silhouette. Within two unified
formats, an extended floor plan and a concentrated one, we organize the
same unit twelve times: a square figure asymmetrically divided into four
rooms.
Section
Sometimes
central, others lateral or in a diagonal disposition, each unit
establishes a different relation amongst the rooms. Potentially, the
lower rooms will be occupied with the heavy duties of a workshop.
Trapped between these two factual worlds the domestic life rests
protected with a large room for the daily use and a couple of bedrooms
piled on it for the night. The main room steps down towards the west. By
maintaining the lintels at one defined horizon, the progressive
sequence of frames makes the perception of its depth relative.
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Entering
the main room is equivalent to diving under the platform defined by the
whole number. You reach the studio by facing a mirror that shows in the
inside what lies across the street. The cypress, turned into steps,
locks into a continuous spiral that slowly offers the sight back while
ascending. The construction is a regular and monolithic layering of
concrete with exposed aggregate. A slight change in the size of the
gravel differentiates the texture of the podium to that of the tower. In
the interior,
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Cristobal Palmathe walls are wrapped by surfaces of painted wood,
almost without thickness and barely interrupted by the galvanized steel
frames that hold the windows in place.
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