ERZ House
The house is located on a hillside that delimits with the edge of the Ranco lake in Futrono to the south of Chile.
Facing this great tension towards the sights, locating the house in perpendicular sense seeking to make ‘’front’’ to generous views. Foreseeing the difficulty of supervision throughout the construction, we did a land registry of the constructive local systems and with this to try to make an equivalent language to the future builders. The wood carpentry is a local usage; our adjustment opposite to this was to set a strict modulation to an extensive and quiet volume, in contrast with the sinuous and diverse geometries of the landscape.
The high plinth supposes a new level to look, and also helps for disappear the distance of the water edge when someone is seated there. This plinth is also the ‘’support’’ for the wood structure in its south-west face; an exposed concrete wall of 2.10 m of height that contains the service facilities; proposing a thick and inhabitable wall for the enclosures servants.
The access in the center of the house connects with the individual and common areas, it is the zone of meeting between inhabitants; the dimension of this ‘’foyer’’ and the sights that it faces has done that it transforms in a site of ambiguous permanency.
A narrow hall drives towards the rooms to which go down by means of two steps. A high edge contains the beds and makes a low parapet. The circulation towards the common enclosures is defined rubbing the large windows; the visual relationship with landscape expands.
Just one roof with one gradient angle is the formal link with the hillside geometry; both angles repeat themselves towards the extensive landscape that dominates.
The volume uniformity, in its exterior condition, disappears in the sum of internal details that the house proposes, seeking to intensify the sensory experiences of its residents.
