A pre-existing house of colonial tiles, near the lake and in the middle of the forest. San Bernardino, a city where poetry becomes matter.
We abstract the essence of housing and deconstruct it. The long horizontal strokes that are born from the existing, turn the object into landscape. 

The "genius loci" manifests itself through the forest and therefore understanding its essence would constitute the field of work where the idea is built. A tree articulates the translation of the access between thick walls of earth built with the soil of the place that seem to have always been there.  A door lets you discover it.
The high temperatures of the place reveal the search for shadow, where it is the body that projects; the beauty of a space perfectly balanced to the senses, that space is the essence of the true.

The central element is the gallery, an intermediate space between interior and exterior, where the limits are erased, we are inside and outside at the same time in connection with the natural.

To inhabit each space is to participate in plastic sensations linked to the place through the shadow. The dematerialization of the upper plane abstracts the essence of the forest whose lower plane is used as a tapestry, where sometimes we draw shadows, sometimes light and above all and at certain times, a magnificent play of light and shadow. 

It is the shadow that gives that atmosphere, the abstraction of the forest. Architecture disappears, Architecture is the Forest.

Team:

Architects: Oficina X

Photographers: Leonardo Mendez & Daniel Ojeda

Materials Used:

Facade cladding:  Rammed earth, Brick, wood
Flooring: Ardosia Stone
Doors: Artesanal wood by locals
Windows: Tempered glass by locals
Roofing: Concrete seen, OficinaX
Interior lighting: Luminotecnia
Interior furniture: Artesanal Wood by ArkStudio