Oller Caracas House / Yáñez Hormazábal Arquitectos
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Text description offered by the architects. The home is situated on the nook of Oller and Caracas streets within the Recreo neighborhood in Viña del Mar, and was one of many Outstanding Works of the XXI Chilean Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, beneath the premise of the “on a regular basis”.
This fee got here from a member of the family trying to purchase an condo, to whom we supplied, utilizing the identical funds, to discover a piece of land and design a house, not abandoning them throughout development and sustaining our mutual affection. In their phrases: “Up until then we had only seen real estate offers, it was not an option to build something because we did not know with whom we could do it, then Dolores and Pablo came with the idea to recover some old construction or to buy some land and build from scratch. Although it was going to take longer, we liked to have their guidance and the fact that nothing was ruled out”.
With this stage of belief, the immediacy of shopping for a brand new condo was dominated out and we started working collectively for 2 and a half years, and successfully, nothing was dominated out, ensuing within the Oller Caracas House, an answer amongst many others to this household’s want for a house.
The dialogue between the home’s facade and the neighborhood is compelled by the chamfered nook and a precarious border wall that was not demolished, on which the home is suspended, a gesture that was repeated internally, the place the airtight high quality of the façade is in opposition to the rooms with massive home windows.
Foundations, flooring and flooring beneath some furnishings are uncovered concrete; partitions, partitions and ceilings are SIP panels, with tin on the skin and wooden inside; doorways and home windows are metalwork. Everything as it’s, which calls for the artwork of fine development, since we couldn’t apply make-up after it was completed.
Due to the closeness we had with the homeowners this system was clear, however on the similar time we steered new makes use of, and so the home features a patio, three bedrooms, two loos and a standard house for relaxation, meals and cooking, which is topped with an elevated research into the exceptional ceiling, which strictly talking is a really tight ground plan that beneficial properties air in its elevation.
Although the funds was restricted, there was no imposition of austerity, however somewhat we addressed choices on supplies and development strategies, avoiding adverse connotations that would scare off potential builders, which in Chile, for this scale of funding, often contemplate structure as a part of their providers.
Thus, the Oller Caracas House has a dialogue with a standard on a regular basis life that turns into extraordinary within the inevitable train of imagining what that day-to-day would have been like if they’d chosen to purchase an condo, a chance that was opened up by structure within the quest for an alternate.