Stranded House
STRANDED HOUSE
WHALE!
ARCHITECTS
Whale!
PROJECT MANAGER
Alex Gaete
ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION
Roberto Valencia
CALCULATION PROJECT
Cristian Meza
DESIGN TEAM
Branko Pavlovic, Pablo Lobos-pedrals
COLLABORATORS
Hugo Bertolotto, Pablo Oyarzún Kuschel
TOPOGRAPHICAL PLAN
Eugenio Pavlovic U.
HEALTH PROJECT
Miguel González F.
ELECTRICAL PROJECT
Leonardo Araya
INSTALLING PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM
Casablanca Renovables, José Luis Fuenzalida
CONSTRUCTION
PYLP
PHOTOGRAPHS
Hugo Bertolotto
AREA
180 M²
YEAR
2014
LOCATION
Tunquen, Chile
CATAGORY
Houses
- A stranded whale. - Dry his back under the sun of a breezeless summer. - Opaque as an ancient ash. - Pale gray as a collected stone.
- The sand under its belly still kepps the necessary moisture. - To dig up shells and weeds. - And the tiny coals
- With which we could draw the darkest shade. - That will be the most brilliant and wet black. - Just as the sad floors of STALKER.
- We’d never touched the skin of a dolphin. - But we can feel the touch. - Soft like hair underwater.
- Shiny and thick as the finest sheepskin. - But: Can we guess how it feels to touch a whale drying under a January sun?
- A whale aground between chaguales and litre. - After a massive flood. - Rest half dead looking the Casablanca estuary.
- Barely glimps the sad glow of the tin roofs. - That grow as garbage Fields in the middle of meadow. - Forgetting at his back the Quintay’s slaughterhouse. - Where many souls were silenced.
The house is located in Tunquén, 122 km away from Santiago, in an área with gullies and ravinesthat steer the water into the valley.
The site overlooks a landscape where the boxed estuary opens to the Tunquén wetland, before merging with the main beach and the Pacific Ocean.
The main plan is a simple beach house, with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and an open space for living room, dining room and kitchen; plus 2 terraces, one indoor and one exposed.
The scheme is built in two volumes that are intersected and overlapped. The floor layout reflects the turning point of the concave topography in relation to the landscape.
The construction system is made of rigid frames, built on pine wood (2 x 6"), and distanced 95 cm, where each frame is different from another.
However, the roof is continuous and homogeneous, trapping in a single gesture the different moments of the house.
