Guayacan House is located in San Jose de Maipo, a privileged environment in which the ecosystem are lush and evocative. Therefore both the material and design are based on the co-existence with the kind of place where the complexity of the ecosystem was used as creative elements of design. Symbiosis with the addition, the clear materiality of respect and balance, both in terms of volume and tone for the environment, wood is the main component, connect the house with the ecosystem. In addition to concrete and glass, 60% of the material comes from the reuse of phenolics plates. (click images to enlarge)
Thanks to the maximization of the resources when the project was planned, the plates have their place in the house in their original sizes, because the format is used n production. This resulted in measures that address the design of spaces, to avoid unwanted waste.
Using the irregularity of the topography as raw materials, the house rises above pillars, to minimize interference in the ecosystem. It also means managing the dialogue with the ubiquity of the hill, turn the house on a balcony waving to the Maipo Valley. This condition rewards contemplative spaces on the terrace and inside, where a corridor is designed longitudinally with the valley, capturing its views through the windows, refusing the hill on the opposite side.
However, to provide privacy, the only two bedrooms are located at its poles, These two poles are connected by a corridor that is independent from both and the exterior. Guayacan House is the result of the rise of the environmental protection, an exercise of symbiosis in which the skillfully author uses the proposed architectural resources to offer a constructive, coherent, effective and honest design within the community and the environment, making the three as a development axis. This is a home that is an ally of simplicity to both highlight the quality of the environment as it is and the house itself.
Architect: Matias Ruiz Malbrans
Location: Guayacan / San José de Maipo, Chile
Date of design: 2010
Year: 2011
Surface: 5300 m2
Project Area: 62 m2
Materials: wood, recycled phenolic plate, structural plywood
Contractor: RUIZSOLAR
Manufacturer: Eric Solar Salvo
Structural Analysis: Gerardo Fercovic Mucre
Photo: Matias Ruiz M.
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