GITC Arquitectura

Passalacqua Lahsen House

PASSALACQUA LAHSEN HOUSE

GITC arquitectura

Passalacqua Lahsen House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Odr Ingenieros

ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Felipe Vera Buschmann, Rodrigo Belmar Expósit

MANUFACTURERS
Cubiertas Nacionales, Forestal Acza., Glasstech, Tecnopanel

CONSTRUCTOR
Gitc

AREA
254 m²

YEAR
2014

LOCATION
Chile

CATEGORY
Houses

Passalacqua Lahsen House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo

Text description provided by architect.

The building is in a rural town in the north of Santiago, immersed in an agricultural environment, partially urbanized, in an area of ​​semi - arid Mediterranean climate with a long summer season, sunny, hot and dry, but with temperature daily variations greater than 25 ° C. Likewise, the place is well ventilated.

Seismically speaking, the area constitutes a very low category ground type. It is a very favorable soil for agriculture, but very unfavorable to found, build and withstand earthquakes in a straightforward way, obligatory requirement in Chile.

Passalacqua Lahsen House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo
Passalacqua Lahsen House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo

REQUEST: 

Sub-urban single-family house, for three adults and two children, safe, functional, thermal comfort, mostly one floor, mostly of light material, but with elements of solid structure presence.

INTEGRATED CONCEPTS: 

The request was primarily conceived as an isolated dwelling. A house without close neighbors, solitary, at least for a time, relatively far from urban services and facilities.

An exposed and discreet building, far from their own predial edges and firmly anchored to the ground, in a close, clear, clean and visible environment. A hyper insulated body thermally talking.

Passalacqua Lahsen House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo
Passalacqua Lahsen House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo

The habitant’s security perception and security effectiveness was priority and a fundamental requirement. Also, thermal comfort. It required an efficient design in the broad sense of the word: architectural efficiency, technical - constructive efficiency, energy and thermal efficiency.

PROPOSAL: 

The program is distributed mainly in one floor, in an extended cross form plant. An interior quality central volume orders the project.

Passalacqua Lahsen House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo
Passalacqua Lahsen House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo

From there, the volume is projected towards certain directions, achieving a visual relationship with the environment, domain and control over the entire site and maximizing the possibilities of passive ventilation to the interior spaces.

The central volume, which constructs a double height, and a small inner loft, is oriented slightly rotated and open towards the north - east sun.

Passalacqua Lahsen House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo
Passalacqua Lahsen House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo

The openings, spans and features of the project are arranged and dimensioned according to safety criteria, visit and control, constructive standardization and direct solar radiation controlled catchment.

Structurally, the building is thought as a rigid central one floor core, made with reinforced concrete, which supports a slab and an overhanging cantilever inside the main living room.

Passalacqua Lahsen House
© Felipe Díaz Contardo
Passalacqua Lahsen House
Ground Floor Plan

The double height body is designed in steel structure and the rest of the house, which constitutes 65% of the building, in a prefabricated system of insulated panels (SIP).

The building construction was executed under a delegated administration contract with a high participation and decision during the process of the owner.

Passalacqua Lahsen House
First Floor Plan

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