Located in Pereira, Colombia, the house is immersed in a green natural landscape toward the forest of the Central Andes Cordillera. The project stems from the intention of orienting and framing views toward the mountains, making them a permanent element of the experience of inhabiting the house. Through its courtyards, terraces, and roofs, the residence creates different ways of contemplating and engaging with its surroundings. 

The treatment of materiality pursues a language that is both contemporary and traditional. Concrete, glass, wood, and stone are combined with gardens and water elements. Stone takes on a particularly strong presence, while wood brings warmth to the proposal. 

Within this exploration, traditional techniques and artisanal expressions such as “Esterilla” are reinterpreted and adapted to a contemporary perspective. Added to this Quimbaya inspired elements present throughout the house, allowing the ancestral cultural connection intrinsic to the client to be incorporated through a local artist Juan Alberto Rincón who imprinted the mark of his travels throughout Latin America onto traditional exterior elements of the house.

The project thus seeks for the identity of the site to appear not merely as decoration, but as part of a broader intention that brings together materiality, landscape, memory, and contemporary ways of inhabiting. 

La Libélula House is organized around a division between social and private areas. This decision allows different degrees of intimacy, separating collective activities from spaces intended for rest. Both areas are articulated through a geometric angle difference that establishes the main transitional and transparent space of the house. 

The courtyard functions as an intermediate space between the different environments. A single narrow, glassed covered circulation of a smaller scale.

Orienting perspectives toward the finest untouched, almost unknown landscape, which is a natural protection area by the country.