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Project • By Chetecortes Architects • Private Houses
Living House - Casa Viva
Designed for a business family who spends a lot of time traveling, with a culture of fluidity and continuity of energy in their lives.
We begin by understanding the movement of people through body expression, using photography as tools.
A picture of a sleeping person describes her as static, resting and distributing all her weight on the bed, placing most of the surface of her body on it.
A photo of a person walking, is fixed, but describes a movement. The person distributes his weight through the legs, reaching the feet that touch the ground with very little surface.
That is why the house is an object that is on the floor, which is supported by 2 static cubes. This object seems to be still for the moment, but it is actually in... More
Project • By Chetecortes Architects • Private Houses
3 cubes - La Jolla Beach House
The project until in construction, is a private beach house in La Jolla condo, at 101 km south of Lima, Peru.
The land is in the second row, has long form, measuring 30 meters. Depth x 10mts. wide and bordered by a neighboring lot attached to the right, parking entry is provided by the rear facade and pedestrian entrance coming from the beach by the side facade.
The house is created for three families of friends, parents and children with wives and grandchildren.
The house has a simple shape on the outside of easy to remember, are 3 cubes of different materials and different state each, the first real cube in the first level, easily recognizable, formed by aluminum rods. The second a virtual cube, formed by layers of concrete (wall... More
Project • By Chetecortes Architects • Private Houses
Beach House - New Paracas, Perú
The project is a private beach house, located in the condominium Mast in Paracas, a 250 kms. the capital of Peru (Lima). It is in an area of 467.27m2 irregularly shaped front row with ocean view.
The house was designed for a friends married couple with two teenage daughters, construction has 448.90m2 and a free area of 186m2.
He started considering Land condo, we know that even at this time there is no nearby houses, at some point it will be, and if the house starts close to the ground or buried would shrink outdoor spaces designed as sidewalks, gardens, boulevards, for this reason we choose the house is floating and let see down of the floor, without narrowing the perception of outdoor spaces.
Challenges:
The challenges of the... More