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Spiral Garden House

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SPIRAL GARDEN HOUSE

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ARCHITECTS
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PROJECT ARCHITECTS
César Becerra, Fernando Puente Arnao, Manuel de Rivero

CONSTRUCTION
Ing. Carlos Inurritegui

COLLABORATORS
Carlos Baluarte, Daniel Yep, Militza Carrillo y Genaro Alva

STRUCTURES
PRISMA

AREA
260 m2

YEAR
2009

LOCATION
San Isidro, Peru

CATEGORY
Houses, Renovation

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We were commissioned to renovate a house to suit the new family that would occupy it. The house had a small back garden, but what the clients really dreamed about was a house IN A GARDEN.

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Was it perhaps an impossible dream given the existing structure and the lot size? Should we limit ourselves to only renovating?

Perhaps if we could house the entire program under a garden that occupies as much of the lot as possible, we could achieve the dream house.

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But how do we light the house? And above all, how do we see the garden from the house?

Cutting and folding, we turn the garden into a spiral, with this we can illuminate the house, generate views to the garden and locate the pool in an ideal position:

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maximum garden + maximum house. The existing house is used almost entirely, a small part is demolished, and another part is built to adapt it to the new reality.

A continuous spiral garden allows a path that leads from the entrance to the pool on the third level.

Two specific environmental conditions of Lima enable this house: the first is the mild weather, no rain or extreme temperatures, which allows easy care of the gardens throughout the year.

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The second is the near-equatorial light without shadows from the almost permanently cloudy sky, which allows us to illuminates -from above- the spaces underground.


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