El Gauchal House in Navidad
Iván Bravo 

El Gauchal House in Navidad

Iván Bravo 


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 the preferences of the different owners in a single volume. Clad in wood, it rises with a vertical volume that determines the arrangement of rooms, combining very small spaces with larger ones. Freeing the volume from the ground made it possible to rearrange the typical beach-house layout, giving rise to new programmatic relationships along the vertical axis. This is achieved by a bay reduced – contrasting with a prominent height – by the scale and the positions of openings on the facade. The families have private spaces of similar size, distributed on the different levels.