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House on the Cliff
Diego Opazo

House on the Cliff

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We like the virtue of architecture which makes possible constructing a house on air, walking on water...

photo_credit Diego Opazo
Diego Opazo
photo_credit Diego Opazo
Diego Opazo

An abrupt plot of land overlooking the sea, where what is best is to do nothing. It invites to stay.

photo_credit Diego Opazo
Diego Opazo
photo_credit Diego Opazo
Diego Opazo

A piece that respects the land's natural contour is set in it.

photo_credit Diego Opazo
Diego Opazo
photo_credit Diego Opazo
Diego Opazo

Above, a shadow, the house itself, looking calmly at the Mediterranean.

photo_credit Diego Opazo
Diego Opazo
photo_credit Diego Opazo
Diego Opazo

Under the sun, the swimming-pool brings us closer to the sea, it becomes a quiet cove.

photo_credit Diego Opazo
Diego Opazo
photo_credit Diego Opazo
Diego Opazo

In the inflection point, the stairway proposes a evocative path, a garden in the basement...

photo_credit Diego Opazo
Diego Opazo
photo_credit Diego Opazo
Diego Opazo

Due to the steepness of the plot and the desire to contain the house in just one level, a three-dimensional structure of reinforced concrete slabs and screens adapting to the plot's topography was chosen, thus minimizing the earthwork. This monolithic, stone-anchored structure generates a horizontal platform from the accessing level, where the house itself is located. The swimming-pool is placed on a lower level, on an already flat area of the site. The concrete structure is insulated from the outside and then covered by a flexible and smooth white lime stucco. The rest of materials, walls, pavements, the gravel on the roof... all maintain the same colour, respecting the traditional architecture of the area, emphasizing it and simultaneously underlining the unity of the house.

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