Iván Bravo

ORQE House

ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld

ORQE HOUSE

Iván Bravo Arquitectos

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Iván Bravo

PHOTOGRAPHS
Aryeh Kornfeld

COLLABORATOR
Elias Maturana

LOCATION
La Reina, Chile

AREA
136 m²

YEAR
2016

CATEGORY
Houses

Text by Martín Rojas.

Located in a residential neighborhood in the northern part of Santiago, the Orqe House is the result of an exhaustive exercise of purification of the traditional canons of residential architecture.

ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld
ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld
ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld

A continuous skin that brings together the formal attributes of the abstraction of a traditional roof, envelops an interior that appears familiar.

Each piece, each element, each relationship is where it is expected to be, and when it comes to inhabiting, the house disappears, yielding its protagonism to its dwellers.

On uneven terrain, the envelope is buried towards the street and opens towards the north, consolidating a common ground that allows diluting the limits between the interior of the house and the outdoor terrace in front of which all the common spaces are located.

ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld
ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld
ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld

This envelope, which makes up the entire house, is stripped of all material pretensions and is shown in its most primitive form.

Built entirely of raw wood and resting on a pure concrete floor.


ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld
ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld
ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld
ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld
ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld
ORQE House
© Aryeh Kornfeld


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ORQE House
Elevation
ORQE House
Elevation
ORQE House
Elevation


ORQE House
Floor Plan
ORQE House
Roof Plan
ORQE House
Mezzanine Floor

Iván Bravo
Iván Bravo
Santiago, Chile