Cazú Zegers Arquitectura

Soplo House

Soplo House
© Cazú Zegers

SOPLO HOUSE

Cazú Zegers

ARCHITECTS
Cazú Zegers 

CLIENT
Inmobiliaria Casa Aira

FURNITURE
Orlando Gatica, Luis Lopez

FINISHES
Victor Valladares, Vasco Cuevas

CONSTRUCTION
Constructora Almar (Francisco Alvarez)

LIGHTING DESIGN
Paulina Sir, Gaspar Arenas

POOL
Favertec, Carlos Vargas

MANUCATURERS
Firestone Building Products, Arteknia, Atika, Carpenter, Dellorto, Duomo, George Stone, MK, Orlando Gatica, TEP, Tecma

STRUCTURES
Oph (Oscar Paredes)

PLUMBING
Simona Simonatti 

ELECTRICAL
Sergio Alemparte

TECHNICAL INSPECTION
Eduardo Cortez

TERMAL EFFICIENCY
Pablo Sills

HVAC
Carlos Alberto Infante

AREA
280 m²

TOTAL SURFACE
1460 m2

YEAR
2011

YEAR OF CONSTRUCTION
2010-2011

PROJECT YEAR
2006 - 2010

LOCATION
Lo Barnechea, Chile

CATEGORY
Houses

Soplo House
© Isabel Fernandez
Soplo House
© Isabel Fernandez

“Soplo”, Spanish for “breath”, which breathes life, is the wind that passes smoothly through the openings. It is the shapes that draws the wind on the sand.

Soplo House
© Isabel Fernandez
Soplo House
© Isabel Fernandez

This house is located in an extraordinary urban space, it is proposed as a “pavilion open to the landscape”.

The back, which coincides with the access, is hermetic, closed by curved walls, inspired by the experience of walking through the sculpture of Richard Serra in Guggenheim Bilbao with my daughter Clara.

Soplo House
© Isabel Fernandez
Soplo House
© Cazú Zegers

The curves are designed in a double system of golden ratios, which give form to the “breath”.

It is a single-family house located at the foot of Manquehue hill in Santiago.

It does not require to be considered as a special, or different, architecture, but instead is focused on generating a homogeneous facade with the neighboring house (which belongs to my sister), designed by the national architecture prize winner Luis Izquierdo.

Soplo House
© Ana María Lopez
Soplo House
© Cazú Zegers

Thus, Soplo House takes the lines from Rollan Zegers house, opening a great territorial space to the view.

In the interior, we focus on extreme subtraction, an open space with a double circulation, one in the back, hermetic, and the other through the landscape, which means that no room reaches the facade window. We thereby generate a dynamic space without hierarchies.

The dwelling happens in a continuous flow, between interior and exterior, horizontal and vertical, making the 1400 m2 plot become infinite, with multiple possibilities.

Soplo House
© Cazú Zegers
Soplo House
© Cazú Zegers

The roof is proposed as a fifth facade, covered with a deck and flowers, which contribute to the thermal efficiency of the house.

The concept of the garden is that of an agrarian landscape, planted in a system of curved terraces that follow the dialogue of the access walls, flanked by the 25 m pool, designed to swim.

Soplo House
© Isabel Fernandez
Soplo House
© Isabel Fernandez

The interiors are designed as sculpture, achieving a dialogue between architecture and sculpture.


Soplo House
© Cazú Zegers
Soplo House
© Isabel Fernandez
Soplo House
© Isabel Fernandez
Soplo House
© Ana María Lopez
Soplo House
© Isabel Fernandez
Soplo House
© Isabel Fernandez


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© Isabel Fernandez
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© Isabel Fernandez
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© Isabel Fernandez
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Soplo House
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Soplo House
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© Ana María Lopez
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Roof plan
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Golden Ratio
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Creative foundation
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Concept

Cazú Zegers Arquitectura
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Cazú Zegers Arquitectura
Pedro de Villagra 2351, 7630367 Vitacura, Región Metropolitana, Chile