Rustic Barn House near Lake Ranco by Estudio Valdés Arquitectos

Architects: Estudio Valdés Arquitectos
Location: Lago Ranco, Los Ríos Region, Chile
Year: 2011
Area: 2,066 square foot / 192 square meters
Photo courtesy: Felipe Díaz Contardo
Description:

The Barn House as a reusing proposition is a piece of a development material protected by three companions that purchased an old horse shelter situated in the Aculeo tidal pond that was harmed following the tremor of February 2010. The development’s dissemination material served to three distinct tasks, a grill for a family in Santiago, an inn porch in the Colchagua Valley and the animal dwellingplace house at Lake Ranco, empowered for a summerhouse.

The primary target was to utilize the old horse shelter, the entryways and the rooftop structure in poplar wood for trusses and sheathing, consolidating it with the neighborhood wood utilized as a part of columns and outside coatings.

The structure comprises of the rundown of reused trusses bolstered by a grouping of border segments found each three meters, offering shape to a basic and clean volume, a solitary inside lobby with a rectangular floor arrangement absolved of columns.

The late spring’s system house offers need to normal spaces, the patio, the family room and the lounge area are arranged in the principle corridor, leaving the rest, rooms, bathrooms, kitchen and administration region, all together in one of the animal dwellingplace’s sides shaping a ” L”.

The materiality additionally goes with the destination of the diverse spaces; the regular territory is totally straightforward, framed by the arrangement of ribs of trusses and columns at sight, shut with thermo board glass. While, the rooms and administration zone is a murky volume, protected under the shed’s top, all covered with the reused poplar wood.

At long last, the Shed deliberately arranged on a characteristic level amidst the timberland, is pictured as an incredible spread laying delicately on a line of columns, through its straightforwardness, in the sunshine, the trees of the other side can be seen, giving the inside space the state of being outside, and in the night the shed is perceived as a light box.