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Rosales Quijada House

Rosales Quijada House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo

ROSALES QUIJADA HOUSE

Gitc Arquitectura

CONSTRUCTION
GITC Construcción

MANUFACTURERS
Polpaico, Zelcon, Atika, Carlos Herrera , Glasstech, Chamiza/prodema, Acza , Aimtec

AREA
230 m2

SITE AREA
4.800 m2

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Felipe Vera Buschmann, Rodrigo Belmar Expósito, GITC

LOCATION
Chicureo, Chile

CATEGORY
Houses

YEAR
2010

AREA
4800.0 m²

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THE PROJECT

Detached house, for a marriage, two children and services. Public areas on the first floor and private spaces in the second.

Rosales Quijada House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo
Rosales Quijada House
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In this higher volume, parents and children are parted; the first to de east and the children to the west. On the second floor, the ends of each volume has the most private places to finish in the center with the most common areas (father desk and TV/multimedia room for children); creating a large central volume of double height; which contain the relations and nexus (both foot how sight) between this double duality (private / public and children / parents).

THE MATERIAL CONCRETE, STEEL AND NATIVE WOODS

A dialogue between the weight and mass of Concrete with the lightness and warmth of the wood.

Rosales Quijada House
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Rosales Quijada House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo
Rosales Quijada House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo

The base structure on the first and second floors is concrete, delivering a "sturdy table" to line the outside with a steel and wood.

Both on the second floor as the double volume center height, native wood used dried and processed internally. Canelo was used in walls and ceilings, and Tineo or Coihue in floors.

GLASS BRICKS

This element was used to create the east wall of the kitchen, like a kaleidoscope filtering out the morning light in the kitchen; and distorter the lighting that receive bathrooms, and in the function how a screen to separate access and dining.

Rosales Quijada House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo
Rosales Quijada House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo

It is a playful element that gives movement and illuminates at the same time that separate them.

FUNCTIONAL AND SPATIAL AXES

The Corridor. Inhabiting the maximum length

Rosales Quijada House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo
Rosales Quijada House
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The second floor hallway is transformed into a large corridor that ends in two terraces; the small west terrace flying over the main entrance, and the large east terrace.

This corridor, which runs the maximum internal length of the house (24 meters + terraces) in addition to the semi-interiors latticework of the terraces, is accompanied by a large horizontal south window, communicating the neighboring fields inside the house.

Rosales Quijada House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo
Rosales Quijada House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo

STAIRCASE AND CENTRAL VOLUME

The main staircase, located as a finish of the central volume of double height that is projected to the north courtyard, rests on a large vertical wall that is peeled away from the house and allows the entry of solar illumination throughout the day (being this wall a support of the rays and shadows the sun); becoming a true sundial that indicates both the advance of the day, as the change of the seasons.


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