Gonzalo Iturriaga Arquitectos

RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge

RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
© Federico Cairoli

RF.C9 - MOUNTAINEER'S REFUGE

Gonzalo Iturriaga Atala

MANUFACTURERS
Arauco, CHC, Glasstech

AREA
60 m²

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
San Esteban, Chile

CATEGORY
Houses

RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
© Federico Cairoli

Text description provided by architect.

The commission consisted of a roof, a kitchen, a bathroom and one room. The necessary to start at dawn the route traced the day before.

RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
© Federico Cairoli
RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
© Federico Cairoli

The proposal consists in constructing through planes and angles a cover that in its folds allows the entrance and in its cuts the exterior views.

Composed of a central corp of services, the form is established from folds that correlatively determine it interior and exterior.

At one end the main room and a secondary room for mountain implements.

RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
© Federico Cairoli
RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
© Federico Cairoli
RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
© Federico Cairoli

At the other end, a common enclosure where the mountain leads the view towards the outside.

The shel composed of pine wood, metal elements and crystals are transformed to fulfill two functions, structural and volumetric.

Using a ventilated facade on all sides and a system of piles, the shelter functions as a hermetic element suspended on the ground that from specific openings uses the rising current of the mountain to ventilate its interior.

RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
© Federico Cairoli
RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
© Federico Cairoli

It is the point of arrival and departure to each course defined by the mountaineer, a monitoring and rest station that gives in a privileged place the opportunity to contemplate and visit. Here is the refuge.

RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
© Federico Cairoli
RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
© Federico Cairoli


RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
Site Plan
RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
First Floor Plan


RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
Section A
RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
Section B
RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
Section C
RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
Isometric


RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
North Elevation
RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
South Elevation
RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
East Elevation
RF.C9 – Mountaineer’s Refuge
West Elevation

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