Abarca y Palma Arquitectos

Pfeiffer House

Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana

PFEIFFER HOUSE

Abarca + Palma

ARCHITECTS
Abarca + Palma

CONSTRUCTION
Miguel Cifuentes, Hernán Echeverría

MANUFACTURERS
AutoDesk, Arauco, CHC, CUBIERTAS NACIONALES, Sudpanel

STRUCTURAL CALCULATION
Sebastián Cárcamo

DESIGN TEAM
Francisco Abarca, Camilo Palma, Sebastián Ochoa, Nicolás Acosta

PHOTOGRAPHS
Andrés Maturana

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Frutillar, Chile

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

A single-family house located in the area of Frutillar, IX Region, in the rural sector of Bahía Domeyko.

Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana
Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana

It is a house designed for an elderly woman, located in front of Lake Llanquihue and next to a storage shed used and built by the first German settlers who lived in the area.

These two elements of the context are what define the order and shape of the house. The layout is based on the need to have the most important enclosures with a frontal view of the lake and the form, in turn, is based on the search for a shape similar to the existing volume fo the shed.

Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana
Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana

Understanding the difference in width between the shed and the new house, the ridge of the shed was taken as a reference in order to generate an asymmetric volume that equates the shed towards the front and takes its own geometry regarding the slope of the roof in the back.

The existing shed is made of wood, both in the exterior cladding and the roof, so the house is built with a mono-material zinc cladding, highlighting the simplicity of the shape in relation to the existing shed.

Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana
Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana

The nave on the interior doesn't lose its continuity of the ceiling due to the strategy of low partitions and the use of glass in order to create a unitary reading.

The house is built with wood and SIP panels generating a modular coordination in all its construction elements.

Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana


Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana
Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana
Pfeiffer House
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Pfeiffer House
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Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana
Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana
Pfeiffer House
© Andrés Maturana


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Architectural Plan
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Roof Plan


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North Elevation
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East Elevation
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West Elevation
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South Elevation


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Abarca y Palma Arquitectos
Abarca y Palma Arquitectos
Frutillar, Chile