The project is based on the concept of a "Family Lodge", which aims to house a complete family group including 4 generations with friends. Located in the south of Chile in the Region of Los Ríos, it is an area with a lot of rain; from this condition the poetic word that leads the concept of architectural design is born. We study the geometric composition of the water molecule (* 1), thus the idea of 3 bodies connected to each other was born, under a great protection blanket for the rain.
On the other hand, one of the family members of the group has a mobility problem due to an immunological disease, which leads to planning the project in a single plant, all at the same level, connected and integrated. The house rises on a structure of metal pillars, which take the shape of the land, creating a basement, which is used for the service program along with a barbecue area and hot tub (* 2). In the central body of the first level, there is the access and public area with a kitchen integrated into the dining room and living room, based on the concept of the ga-loft (* 3) - a mixture of the American loft with the traditional warehouse of southern Chile.
The bedrooms are located in the lateral bodies, which converge to the center in a smooth and fluid way. All the accesses to the bedrooms are worked with invisible doors, to maintain the continuity of the walls and that they are part of the spatiality of the volume, not conventional corridors. All accesses are worked with steel ramps covered in wood, to allow the mobility of a wheelchair. In the interior coating, recycled native woods are used from old sheds and vernacular houses, which are dismantled because they are in poor condition or because a building will be made in their place.
It is a way of building the contemporary anchored in tradition, with iconic typologies from the south of Chile. The use of these recycled woods allows to have several types of native wood, such as oak, raulí, coihue and laurel; which gives it a reddish hue, therefore; perfectly dialogues with the rust on the fuselage. The floor is entirely made of raulí and all the windows are made in the place, with pellin wood, (old oak).
Material Used :
1. Special Elements: SculptorJessica Torres
2. Digital Prints in Showers: Dell'Orto - Esteban Guzmán y Roberto Rodríguez
3. Digital Print Photography: Alfredo Gildemeister
4. Structure: Reinforced concrete and steel
5. Windows: Made in situ with pellin wood (old oak)
6. Interior Pavement: Rauli wood
7. Exterior Pavement: Rauli wood
8. Interior Wall Finishing: Native wood - roble, rauli, coihue and laurel
9. Exterior Wall Finishing: Steel plates worked in situ
10. Thermal Efficiency: DIAV - Pablo Sills
11. Lighting Design: DIAV - Paulina Villalobos y Daniela Orellana
12. Landscape Design: FAZ - Francisca y Alejandra Sánchez
13. Decoration: María Luisa Zegers
