Cazú Zegers Arquitectura

Ye House

Ye House
© Marcos Zegers

YE HOUSE

Cazú Zegers

ARCHITECTS
Cazú Zegers

LOCATION
Housesvaldivia, Chile

CATEGORY
Houses

AREA
344 m²

YEAR
2018

PHOTOGRAPHS
Marcos Zegers, Daniel Corvillón

TERMINATIONS AND PARKING
Edgard Schmidt

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS
Electrical Engineering S.A.

LIGHTING
Paulina Villalobos and Daniela Orellana - DIAV

MANUFACTURERS
VEKA, Jessica Torres, Muebles Master

STRUCTURAL CALCULATION
José Manuel Morales

AIR CONDITIONING
Osvaldo Bustamante - Nortem

CLIENTS
José Manuel Godoy Machado

SANITARY ENGINEERING
Jorge Maturana y Claudia Quezada - Nortem

ENGINEERING
Sergio Alemparte - Electrical Engineering: S.A.

THERMAL EFFICIENCY ENGINEER
Nortem, Sur Clima

THICK WORK
Elio Alvayay

Text description provided by architect.

rom the T house of Cazú Zegers, designed in 2009 and built in 2011 on the shore of Laguna de Aculeo in Chile, a way of naming the projects arises, which comes from the alphabet, it is the alphabet of the poetic word and with this a series of houses that are the abstract synthesis of a letter that becomes a work of architecture.

Ye House
© Marcos Zegers
Ye House
© Daniel Corvillón

It has to do with the creation of reality through language. Each "letter house" has a unique dialogue with the landscape, a territorial dialogue where the work is a unity between landscape and architecture.

The Ye house is a pavilion suspended over a landscape of myrtles with a privileged view of the Cayumapu River and its wetlands, created after the earthquake of May 29, 1960, in Valdivia.

Ye House
© Marcos Zegers
Ye House
© Marcos Zegers

These wetlands have a rich fauna of birds such as the endemic black-necked swan and a dense vegetation layer composed of reeds and lotus flowers, among other species that are very characteristic of these territories.

The program is created to accomplish a house to spend the weekends. The architectural response is the creation of 3 volumes in the arrangement of the letter Y, articulated by the access.

Ye House
© Daniel Corvillón
Ye House
© Marcos Zegers
Ye House
© Marcos Zegers

The main pavilion for the couple is placed parallel to the river, then a second volume to receive each other's children and their friends.

Placed slightly inclined, to accommodate the width of the land and control the length of the building.

Both pavilions are articulated through the access -which is at the same time a window on the Cayumapu River- from which the third architectural body that makes up the parking lot emerges.

Ye House
© Marcos Zegers
Ye House
© Cazú Zegers

A very important place for the homeowner, lover of motorcycles, cars and receiving friends, which is why the parking lot is at the same time an extension of the access terrace.

From it a walkway emerges, which goes to the shore where the dock with terrace and barbecue area is located.Thus, from the parking lot, the house expands to the entire land, to receive friends or is compressed, for the couple.

Ye House
© Marcos Zegers
Ye House
© Daniel Corvillón

It is a low-budget house, so it is thought of as a simple volume, worked in a mono-material for walls and roofs, a pine fuselage treated and primed with black algifol, to give it a dark tone, which contrasts very well with the surrounding landscape.

Inside a very light color is used, which makes the counterpoint with the outside and gives it lightness when living. This is achieved by lining the floors, walls, and ceilings in eucalyptus cladding.

Ye House
© Daniel Corvillón
Ye House
© Daniel Corvillón
Ye House
© Marcos Zegers

The simple volume of the house, discreet on the landscape, so that the landscape is the protagonist in this dialogue with architecture.

It achieves its complexity by means of a double diagonalization of the volumes, on the one hand, the roofs are diagonalized at their ends, and on the other, the vertical ends are diagonalized in a descending way.

Ye House
© Daniel Corvillón
Ye House
© Daniel Corvillón

This simple gesture can be read from the inside, giving volume and texture to the space.The end result was so virtuous that the project created for a weekend home turned into the couple’s main house.

Cazú Zegers Arquitectura
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