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Binimelis House

Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk

BINIMELIS HOUSE

Polidura + Talhouk Arquitectos

ARCHITECTS
Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk

AREA
950.0 m2

YEAR
2007

CATEGORY
Houses

LOCATION
Colina , Chile

Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk
Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk

Text description provided by architect.

The assignment consisted in a house for a young marriage with two children, located on a 950 square meter situated in La Reserva lots in Chicureo, Colina, Chile.

Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk
Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk

The terrain presented three conditions that determined the actions taken that would finally define the project.

Because of the lot being of triangular shape located in a corner, the legal edification lines left the constructible area in the center, a steep incline of 40%, and finally, sun exposure and views towards the valley.

The operation consists in separating the architecture program into two overlapping volumes parallel to the terrain lines, so when seen in section both volumes relate to the landscape.

Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk
Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk
Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk

The lower volume is buried in the terrain and adopts a materiality that allows you to understand it as a socle that blends with the landscape as well as the stone walls that enclose the site.

In this volume the bedrooms connect with the garden that exists over the street level below.

The upper volume lies over it, by abstraction it differs from the stone socle and the terrain. In order to do this, we worked with simple geometry dressed in one only material with industrial shaping and a neutral color (gray stone).

Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk
Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk

The volume breaks to prevent views towards the quarry orienting them to the valley.

This volume contains the public space and connects through the only opening to the garden located at the upper street level.


Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk
Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk
Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk
Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk
Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk
Binimelis House
© Antonio Polidura, Marco Polidura, Pablo Talhouk


Binimelis House
Binimelis House


Binimelis House
Binimelis House
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Binimelis House
Binimelis House

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