Chilean studio Paralelo Transversal has designed an oblong home with a big hip roof and a terrace that cantilevers over a ravine in Puerto Varas, Chile.
Accomplished in 2025 on a 1.2-acre web site close to Lago Llanquihue, the 155-square-metre home, referred to as Casa Ensenada, was oriented round its roof.
“In southern Chile, rain isn’t an exception however a part of on a regular basis life, so we needed the roof to turn out to be greater than a protecting factor,” architect Sebastián Silva of Paralelo Transversal informed Dezeen.
“It creates a spot beneath the rain, extending day by day life past the enclosed rooms whereas bringing the completely different components of the venture collectively below one steady gesture.”
The roof serves because the organising factor for this system, circulation, relationship to the panorama and the house’s construction.
“Its part thickens towards the middle whereas remaining remarkably skinny at its perimeter,” Silva stated.
“This enables it to be perceived as a light-weight, steady sheet whereas offering the structural depth required for long-span trusses able to resisting each Chile’s seismic circumstances and the sturdy winds of Patagonia.”
The home sits on a sloped web site with a stream. Residents and guests method alongside the stream earlier than the entry ramp turns in direction of the home, the place they enter on the junction of private and non-private zones.
The narrower aspect of the plan incorporates a big, open kitchen, eating and front room that bleeds onto the cantilevered terrace.
Oriented towards the northeast to seize winter daylight, the home opens its residing areas to the panorama – the valley of Vicente Pérez Rosales Nationwide Park on one aspect and Calbuco Volcano on the opposite – via floor-to-ceiling home windows with skinny black frames.
The opposite aspect of the home widens to carry three suites. On both aspect of the home, the perimeter wall pushes below the roof cover to kind a coated bench and a planted backyard.
The nice and cozy, up to date materials palette continues throughout the outside and inside with uncovered concrete slabs, massive spans of glazing, tongue-and-groove timber and standing-seam steel roofing.
The hid joints allowed the roof to be exact whereas decreasing the visible impression of development tolerances. The staff collaborated intently with engineers and native builders to attain its lengthy spans and skinny edge.
“Trying again, we consider the venture fulfilled its authentic ambition of integrating structure and panorama with out compromising consolation, development logic or finances,” Silva stated.
“Extra importantly, it strengthened our perception {that a} venture turns into stronger when one clear architectural thought is able to organizing construction, local weather, materiality and area concurrently.”
Beforehand, Paralelo Transversal created a sail-like skylight that introduced solar, shadows and air into a house on the outskirts of Santiago.
Different houses just lately accomplished in Chile embody a mass timber forest hideaway by Iragüen Viñuela Arquitectos and a seaside house with stacked terraces by Croxatto and Opazo Architects.
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Pictures by Marcos Zegers
