Cuatro Aguas House
CUATRO AGUAS HOUSE
DX Arquitectos
ARCHITECTS
DX Arquitectos
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Roberto Mercado, Fedderico Novoa, Juan Luzoro
PHOTOGRAPHS
Pablo Blanco
AREA
450 m²
YEAR
2015
LOCATION
Chicureo, Chile
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by the architects.
The Cuatro Aguas House is conceived as a massive unique volume pierced in the center, with four independent waters, two towards the garden and two towards the interior of the volume generating a water courtyard or impluvium.
Through a compact morphology and the choice of appropriate materials, a large Chilean muslera tile roof and thick brick walls, that is, two different forms of baked earth: one in an oven, the other in the sun, Casa 4A seeks shade where the sun beats down on the Chicureo valley.
In this sense, the choice of clay tile moves away from the imagery of the "Chilean house" as an icon and rescues it in a technological and material sense.
The use of recycled materials of various types in the work configures this atmosphere of the "found object".
