House 2

The project articulates the house’s every-day program on a single level. House and garden develop 3.5m above street level, by means of an elemental ground operation that transforms the pre-existent rise in two horizontal planes, above and below.

Both realms relate gradually through architectural operations. The single-family house scale is preserved in a programmatically simple single-level volume, with relations typical of more compact projects and autonomies common to disaggregated plans.

The third level holds a den and a large open terrace that dominates the Andes view and the abundant vegetation. This roof terrace relates to the lower level through circular perforations in the floor/ceiling contributing light but also showing each other reciprocally thus anticipating the whole through allusive fragments that allow our minds to reconstruct it.