CHOVAR HOUSE
Tidy Arquitectos
CATEGROY
Houses
LOCATION
Antiago, Chile
ARCHITECTS
Tidy Arquitectos
YEAR
2011
COLLABORATOR
Ernesto Silva
STURCTURES
Claudio Hinojosa
CONSTRUCTION
Michel Filippi
PHOTOGRAPH
Marcelo Cáceres
SITE AREA
600,76 m2
The project consists of a single family house of approximately 200m2, located in a residential neighborhood in the foothills of the city of Santiago.
The block where the property is located corresponds to a succession of similar lots, about 20mx30m.
The plastic exercise begins with a closed volume towards the neighbors and open in the longitudinal direction of the site.
A window on the upper level of the east facade opens up to the views of the Andes, maintaining privacy with a high sill.
This limits views from the outside to the inside, and reciprocally, outlines the hills selectively eliminating the immediate plane of the city.
The program responds to a layout customized to the lifestyle of its occupants. In this sense, we gave volumetric prominence to the three major programs located on the first floor: kitchen, dining and living.
Each dislocates from the larger volume, oriented in different directions to visually dominate the courtyard area.
