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Casadetodos by Veronica Arcos
Chile-based architect Veronica Arcos has completed an angular house in the El Arrayán area of Santiago, Chile.
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Called Casadetodos, the residence comprises metallic frames clad in wood.
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Arcos' intention was to explore unconventional structures and provide views towards the surrounding mountains.
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Three cantilevered volumes shelter a patio on one side and there is a terrace between the folds of the angular roof.
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Privacy is afforded by placing no windows in the facade facing the road, while an internal courtyard and skylights admit light.
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Photographs are by Gonzalo Puga. Construction photographs are by Verónica Arcos.
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Here's some more information from Arcos:
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CASADETODOS
The Casadetodos villa is a project that arises from a single family house commission, at the high region of El Arrayán, Santiago.
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The project is articulated from the intention of exploring potentials in non conventional structures; the generation of complex surfaces and ensuring views towards the mountain.
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The structural strategy consists in positioning four metalic frames on each axis. Each frame is conceived as a single architectonic piece which varies according to the programmatic needs, creating ruled surfaces, making a loft through them.
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The frames are in this way understood as a series of `components´that repeat and variate in the project benefit.
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These components try to express the structural efforts as much as they can, leaving them naked, at the interior and exterior of the house.
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Those are inspired on hanging bridges, aiming to get a slender structure of evident structural efforts by built vectors.
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From here big cantilevers are generated which give lightness to the hanging volumes, and create a covered terrace bellow. Each room, excepting the service zone is opened to the mountain.
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Considering the south facade , the rooms are therefore illuminated from the north with an interior patio and skylights above the rooms on the second floor - remember in the south hemisphere we get the sun from the north. The north facade is completely blind, because it is exposed to the street which is on a higher level.
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To get a degree of intimacy on the second level, a double curved surface is constructed; it will be a visual protection and also part of the beach-terrace on the rooftop.
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In the Casadetodos, the leisure spaces are privileged, spaces that enable a direct relation with the nature in either intimate spaces, or dramatically opened ones towards the mountain.
Architect: Verónica Arcos
Clients: Rodrigo Arcos, Alejandra Schmidt
Location: Santiago de Chile
Structural Engenieer: José Manuel Morales
Design: 2006
Construction: 2007-2008
Built surface: 220m2
Photographs: Gonzalo Puga
Work in progress photographs: Verónica Arcos
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