El Maqui Home by GITC arquitectura

Architects: GITC arquitectura
Location: Quebrada El Maqui, Olmué, Chile
Year: 2014
Area: 2,723 sqft / 253 sqm
Photo courtesy: Felipe Díaz Contardo
Description:

The building is situated in the eastern slope of El Maqui Brook, a country spot of The Coastal Mountain Range of Chile. This land zone is a piece of an ensured regular store with high and critical biological worth in light of the fact that its particular and different existing together environments.

The customer request an occasional house for a group of six and a close garden around the house whose primary component was water. All together not to modify the rich woods and environments we looked for an officially harmed slope without vegetation to establish the building. The new arranging venture ought to recuperate the zone. The eastern slope position guarantee us delayed daylight and ideal introduction to the overall ascendant air current.

The system dissemination, the volume and the way it remains over the ground will reaction to two inverse circumstances: A prior one (the topography and climate) and a propose one (the close garden and the water). A residence structure ascends with vicinity and introduction, arranged to the perspectives, the climate excellencies.

The normal regions volume receives a cozy and hermetic position concentrated on the family exercises and on its immediate association with the greenery enclosure and water.

The Water surfaces that round the house were dimensioned by a swimming pool demand and by a proposed bio channel lake with concentrated on levels and expansions. This water surfaces and its particular sea-going plants made conceivable an overflowed greenery enclosure, unearthed on the slope, specifically in contact with the inner regular zone exercises. This overwhelmed plant additionally gives an imperative outside air supply important to control and deal with the mid year high temperatures.

The Water surfaces that round the house were dimensioned by a swimming pool demand and by a proposed bio channel lake with concentrated on levels and augmentations. This water surfaces and its particular sea-going plants made conceivable an overwhelmed patio nursery, unearthed on the slope, specifically in contact with the inside normal territory exercises. This overflowed plant likewise gives an essential natural air supply important to control and deal with the mid year high temperatures.

The material expression will reaction likewise to the two inverse circumstances. The fortified cement of the holding and heading dividers were manufactured by a cover table formwork framework, made nearby. It gets a tectonic and strong expression which, in the meantime relates inviting with the habitant through its compositions, blemishes and shadows lines. The second level will reaction to a proficient development framework. The steel casing structure permitted to fulfill formals necessities and get light and simples ventilated wooden answers for the building walled in areas to control de heat.