Parr House, Chiguayante
Pezo von Ellrichshausen- Type Housing House
- Material Metal Aluminum Wood
- Date 2006 - 2008
- City Chiguayante
- Country Chile
- Photographer Cristóbal Palma
This is both a huge and a small house. It doesn’t have extended rooms but a series of rooms that repeat themselves and some functions that are doubled according to traditional Chilean country life. The house is located in a small farm where, until not long ago, stood the owner’s old house where his childhood was spent. It’s a setting filled with memories. The witnesses are different kinds of fruit trees (from cherry trees to walnut trees) and native trees (from palm trees to araucarias). Beyond this suburban site there is nothing visually attractive. Hence, the program extends horizontally to, besides occupying the depth of these gardens, conquer a sort of interior introspection and exterior invisibility. The irregular, labyrinthic structure contains nine patios; nine openings that control the plan’s density. The roominess of some spaces was made possible by elevating the ceilings, but without casting a shade over the patios. Two inclinations are established: that of the roofs, that always descends towards the patios (allowing only the shade cast by the walls); and that of the ceilings, whose vertex sliced by natural light is located depending on the furniture of each room. The weight of a tile mantle (resembling that of the old house) hangs from these fourteen truncated prisms.[+][+]
Ubicación Location
Chiguayante, Chile
Cliente Client
Privado Private
Arquitectos Architects
Mauricio Pezo, Sofía von Ellrichshausen
Colaboradores Collaborators
Juan Mellado, Carolina Merino, Maria Paz Palma
Contratista Builder
Claudio Bravo
Superficie sitio Plot area
2.835 m²
Superficie construida Built area
532 m²
Fotos Photos
Cristóbal Palma