Program needs: Common area: hall of access/toilet/living room / dining room Service: kitchen / Office/dining area / pantry / 2 service bedrooms / bathroom Master bedroom: master bedroom / 2 bathroom / 2 dressing rooms, study Guest room: bedroom guest / guests dressing room / bathroom guests Kids rooms: 3 bedrooms / 3 bathrooms / 3 dressing rooms / family room Garaje+Trastero Gimnasio+piscina

Constructed surface area: Ground floor: 241,78 m2 Basement floor: 257,80 m2 Total: 499,58 m2

For reasons of use and regulatory constraints, the renovation of the existing building was comprehensive, but superimposed on the existing support structure. As a result, the problem took a particular bias, and a condition of starting more should be added to the conventional: solar, program, client, etc. A condition of game whose difficulty is that it precondicionaba the footprint and its location.

On the other hand, and as program discipline work, we set out three problems: promote the settlement of the construction field naturally; propose an interior space open and continuous; and substitute the figurative iconography.

Integration of the construction field is addressed through direct techniques, such as movements of Earth, and simulations, such as the landscaped forgings or visual and apparent elevation of the grade of the terrain.

The spatial continuity is achieved through material and virtual transparency in varying degrees, as well as giving mobility to different partitions, which introduce a degree of flexibility in the use and perception of the House.

In terms of its image, the manipulation of the profile to promote preferential perception of the continuous and abstract stone surface that, like a cloak, covers the House without distinguishing roofs or facades, revealing a body figure that sits below: the profile of the rooms and their different needs, the skylights, etc.

In terms of the transformation of the existing structure, it rushes through two operations: first, moving the entrance and staircase to the top of the "L"; Secondly, by raising the dimension of the land access a ground motion subsequently continued on a ramp at the front this.

Enter "the Center" of the figure disappear rooms with respect to other easements, and exaggerated the global perception of the space. Thus, from the lobby "throughout the House, perceiving their limits and understanding its shape looks". Transparency is, at a time, material and conceptual, aided by the diagonal hole of stair, which plays along, opening up the space and promoting the vision through and more that one past stays occupied at every moment.

By apparently raising the elevation of the terrain we return the parcel to its original state, before being excavated to locate the original construction. And, in this way, the new organization of the housing is reversed, placing the main rooms on the top floor and down to the ground floor, where the bedrooms and family room open and extend into the garden.