Chileanarchitects

Primeriza House is located on a small clearing of an otherwise heavily sloped terrain with stunning views of the Pacific Ocean to the front and a strong backdrop of almost vertical slope densely populated by cypress trees. Marcos Zegers Marcos Zegers Our clients wanted to make the most of outdoor living, and one of their key requirements was to create many opportunities to inhabit the exterior. Another was to create various different environments, nooks and crannies, and moods inside the house. These two, combined with the plot and weather conditions, shaped the volume of the house and its many transitional spaces.  Marcos Zegers Marcos Zegers The house conquers the slope and inserts firmly into the terrain by mea... More

The views of nature and the sea were the anchor points of the design, adapting to the natural terrain that runs down the ravine. The architecture highlights this medium slope, ending in a small forest of native Chilean vegetation.This project commissioned by the Loiza Palacios family is the design of their definitive home to live in Pichilemu and leave behind the busy capital of Chile, Santiago. Caption Caption With rooms for parents, children, grandchildren, and for visitors, as well as large common spaces to share meals and family events. Interior areas are contemplated, delimited by the furniture in wood and granite, and which join the exterior terrace with balconies over the ravine. Caption Caption The private spac... More

This vacation house in Chile was designed following six basic principles, which I have gradually outlined throughout my professional career. The way these principles are expressed in the building should be easily recognizable from the attached photos and plans:   1. Clarity: Order, proportions, equilibrium between part and whole.    This is a “classical” virtue, that transcends epochs and cultural-historical contexts. A well-constituted form, whether natural or artificial, reveals its principles of spatial organization in a clear and legible way, based in relationships of order and hierarchy. Its opposite is chaos, which means, lack of formative force, leading to states of contradiction, incoherence, and rando... More

Located in the Llanquihue Lake basin, the project is immersed in an extensive slope of green fields and vestiges of an agricultural past. The sheds that are still preserved, give a touch of melancholy that maintains the tradition and history of colonization in the area, and that together with the view of the lake and volcanoes, becomes the main premise of the project.   An essential part of the project was to find a balance between these elements and maintain the morphology of the terrain, perching on a metal structure that transmits the quality of the stage and at the same time focuses on the daily comfort of its inhabitants. One of its main requirements was to work the house on two levels, the upper level for a program of rooms, r... More

Year: 2018Location: ValdiviaFinal surface: 118 m2.Owners: Daniel and VanessaDesign Team: WINTERI Architecture & Planning  The project is located in Valdivia, a city known for intense rain and humid weather. Its surroundings and topography are contextualized with the climate, so that the intense vegetation and shades of green surround it, leaving only a clear space that opens the view towards the wetlands and the Cruces river. Under these conditions, a house was sought that does not impact the environment and that blends into the intense vegetation, maintaining fluidity and the interior-exterior connection without being knocked down by the wind. To keep the house immersed in the context, wood paneling and large windows are used. More

BM House Year of design: 2018 Location: Puerto Varas - Chile Designed area: 404 m² Principal: Mariano and Angélica Designer Team: WINTERI Architects Puerto Varas, a city surrounded by mountains, lakes and a volcano that predominantly marks the territory. B | M house is designed in an exercise of respect for the landscape and a form of defragmentation, where the roofs are suspended and the architecture is cut horizontally to maintain a clear language with the mountains so characteristic of the area. It is a constant search to progressively conquer vertical magnitudes that were worked to find the most appropriate views and capture the warmest lights in that place. The most important thing was to provide the home's home she... More

Solaria House Design Year: 2016 Location: Pucón - Chile Designed area: 2,141 m² Client: Inm. Rio Grande   Design team: Gonzalo Navarro, Rocio Henriquez, Vicente Donoso, Franz Beissinger   This project lies in how the reinterpretation of the construction system; The form of bracing the wooden structure using diamonds gave the image of all parts of the project. We took as a previous reference the old house on which the hotel was built, used as a source of inspiration for what would be the design, choice of materials and subsequent decoration of each of the spaces. PLACEPucon - Chile More