LIMA HOUSE
Pezo Von Ellrichshausen
ARCHITECTS
Pezo Von Ellrichshausen
LEAD ARCHITECT
Mauricio Pezo & Sofia von Ellrichshausen
ENGINEERING & CONSULTING > LIGHTING
Greene & Durinng
ENGINEERING & CONSULTING > CIVIL
Marcelo Valenzuela
AREA
300 m²
YEAR
2025
LOCATION
Chépica, Chile
CATEGORY
Houses
English description provided by the architects.
A flat piece rests on a farmland, on a valley populated by vineyards, framed by rocky hills.
Its elongated proportion contains an even narrower courtyard, oriented to the rise and setting of the sun. The courtyard is occupied by a long swimming pool, whose sparkles animate all the rooms around it.
The house has a bare sequence of spaces, while also promotes a maze like feeling.
The strict symmetry of the entry rooms, with equivalent round quarters in every corner, is interrupted by an almost imperceptible transition from interior to exterior.
The horizontal extension of the house, noticeably elevated from the natural terrain, can be understood like a ring of rooms for an endless movement but also like a fictional encounter between to alphabetical figures (T and U). The building seems to be the silent confirmation of that illusion.
While the alignment of punctual apertures allow for projections to the surrounding landscape, a heavy curved eave makes a clear distinction of their cardinal orientation.
Likewise, while the interior has a soft texture of painted wooden boards, the exterior walls are made with in-situ concrete, tinted with pale pink and barely decorated by their own formwork.
Similar to the first house we ever made, a retired couple will be the permanent inhabitants around an empty core. Perhaps by mere chance, the fate of this grounded scheme is a kind of tacit marriage in which, following Rilke, "each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude"
