Martin Hurtado Arquitectos

House For 60 Friends

House For 60 Friends
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HOUSE FOR 60 FRIENDS

Martin Hurtado

COLLABORATORS
Iván Salas, Andrés Suarez, Ignacio Correa, Sebastián Erazo , Raimundo Arteaga

ICA
5638

LOCATION
Santo Domingo, Chile

YEAR
2008

SITE AREA
5004 m2

STRUCTURE
Alberto Ramírez Covo

CATEGORY
Houses

CONSTRUCTION
Heriberto Covarrubias Sinn

PLUMBING
José Naranjo

Text description provided by architect.

Community and privacy: together but not mixed.

House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
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The size of a house is usually set by the extension of the program. In this case: a separate apartment for the homeowners, an average area for the family and an estimated amount of 60 friends, and a third sector for married children with their families.

House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti

The site is on a hillside overlooking a river canyon near the coast of central Chile.

House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti

We opt for a linear arrangement of the program in a single corridor, where the circulation is transformed into a gallery-living room that links the more private bedrooms and services with common spaces, terraces and landscape in a continuous gathering place.

House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
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The need for privacy, characteristic of a vacation home, is calibrated by breaks in the gallery-corridor forming pockets of intimacy.

House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
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There is no predominant orientation, and we expressly avoid the frontal view. On the circulation path, the gathered people and the landscape are protagonists.

House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
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A large wall with small perforations protects the privacy of the public street and houses in its folds differentiated accesses for the homeowners and their guests.

The materials are determined by a resource economy: exposed concrete, steel and glass crudely finished by local labor.

House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
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The house, by its nature and extent, hosts an act of celebration: that of its owners, their family and 60 friends.

House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
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House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti
House For 60 Friends
© Leonardo Finotti


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