Located in a dense forest in southern Chile, near the city of Puerto Varas, this house presents itself as a compact volume raised on a sequence of arches that minimize its contact with the ground. This construction strategy of the studio led by Diego
The house is located in an Andean valley in the center of Chile, with an extreme climate of cold winters with rain and snow, and warm summers. The owner will live by herself in this isolated environment, receiving guests occasionally. Considering thi
The main objectives in this commission were to ensure views of the lake, one of Chile’s largest, for the entire house, and to make it easy to adapt to different situations (owners being alone or with their children or other visitors). The solution ev
Project carried out by Iván Bravo together with Martín Rojas (associate architect), in collaboration with Juan Oyarzún. “To avoid being tied up / Let nothing unite us.” These verses from Pablo Neruda’s poem Farewell were proud thoughts of a couple th
Designed by the architect Ignacio Rojas Hirigoyen with The Andes House, this project seeks to provide an affordable solution to the problem of scarce decent housing that afflicts Chile and Latin America at large, through a modular building system tha
The project resulted from the decision of four families (a total of fourteen people) to together build themselves a vacation home facing the bay of Navidad. A work of Iván Bravo in collaboration with Martín Rojas and Gino León, the house addresses t
The house sits in a clear stretch between trees. It is built over posts that separate it almost a meter from the ground, allowing the flow of streams that run towards a lagoon in front of the main facade. Its triangular geometry, in this wilderness,
