Thor House

Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos

Thor House

Grass+Batz Arquitectos

COLLABORATOR
Javiera Jadue

LANDSCAPING
JL Arquitectura Paisaje

STRUCTURE
MÁS Estudio de Ingeniería

CONSTRUCTION
Constructora NEVE Ltda

VLEAD ARCHITECTS
Diego Grass, Thomas Batzenschlager

AREA
135 m²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Vitacura, Chile

CATEGORY
Houses

After the Pandemic lockdown, we designed Thor House as a project that seeks to generate an opportunity to live with more space, with a garden, combining family life and work life.

Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos

The project starts from the partial recovery of an existing 70 square meter house, removing all the interior partitions of its structure, turning it into a common space - integrating kitchen, dining room, and living room: building the negative, transforming the existing built mass into a volume of air for the new house.

On top of it, from party wall to party wall, we built a steel structure warehouse that contains the maximum buildable volume according to current regulations, with a floor area of 130 square meters and a maximum interior height of 6 meters.

Between the existing house and the warehouse, we roofed two interior volumes of lower height - one for parents, another for children - which contain bedrooms, bathrooms, and storage rooms, which require more privacy.

Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos

The rest is a common space that is perceived as larger than its 70 square meter surface thanks to the double interior height.

In the lower level, the common space opens towards the backyard. This has been planted - like the front yard - with low water consumption plant species.

Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos

Towards the street, a completely hermetic facade, generating security and at the same time allowing maximum transparency and exposure of a front yard offered for anyone's view from the street.

A large rectangular oculus of 2.5x2.5m watches over the street and, in turn, fills the interior common space with indirect light.

Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos

The contrast between opening and blind panel is accentuated by the dark finish of charred wood boards (Yakisugi Shikkoku).


Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos
Thor House
Cortesía de Grass+Batz Arquitectos


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