8.8 CIUDAD S.U.R

El fotografo Cristobal Palma envío este set de fotos publicado en  Dezeen de la Obra   Casa Parr, una vivienda recientemente terminada por  Pezo von Ellrichshausen Arquitectos in Chiguayante, Chile. Esta es una notable obra de nuestros amigos y colegas Mauricio Pezo y Sofía VonEllrichshausen del estudio PyV. Hemos tenido el privilego de conversar acerca del “Backstage” del proyecto y eso no permite ver on otros ojos la obra terminada , que sin duda es un mérito a la acción volitiva de los arquitectos. Hermosa forma de cerrar un año más que trabajado. Felicitaciones de todo el equipo D+. Ya vendrá el relajo.

The new building comprises twelve rooms arranged around nine courtyards, constructed around the existing trees on the site.

Each room has a high, pitched ceiling with a skylight at the apex; the roofs slope down to admit light into each of the courtyards.

Aluminium-zinc tiles were used to clad the roof and walls.

Here’s some more information from the architects:

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PARR HOUSE, CHIGUAYANTE, CHILE, 2008

This is both a huge and a small house. It doesn’t have extended rooms but instead a series of rooms that repeat themselves and some functions that are doubled according to the 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 of those moments are different kinds of fruit trees (from cherry tress to walnut trees) and native tress (from palm trees to araucarias).

Beyond this suburban site there isn’t much; at least nothing visually attractive. Hence, the program extends horizontally in order to, besides occupying the depth of these gardens, conquer a sort of interior introspection and invisibility of its external presence.

The irregular structure, somewhat labyrinthine, together with establishing a series of variations responding to the size and proximity among rooms, contains nine patios open to the sky. Something similar to nine openings that control the density of the plan.

The floor has no variation of levels. If the roominess of some spaces was made possible by elevating the ceilings to the equivalent of two floors, this decision couldn’t affect the patios by casting a shade over them.

We therefore established two inclinations: that of the roofs, that always descends towards the patios (allowing only the shade cast by the vertical walls); and that of the ceilings, whose vertex sliced by natural light openings is located depending on the furniture of each room.

The weight of a tile mantle (that in some aspect resembles that of the

old wooden house) hangs from these fourteen truncated prisms.

Having small metal pieces is the only way of eliminating the seams at the edge (as if it were one of Burri´s collages) and through them of noticing the industrial yet crafted nature embodied in its surfaces.

Architects: Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen

Project: Parr House

Location: Galvarino street nº 1983, Chiguayante, Chile

Project date: 2006

Construction date: 2007-2008

Plot area: 2.835 m2

Built area: 532 m2

Budget: Not disclosed

Client: Private

Models: Juan Mellado, Carolina Merino, Maria Paz Palma

Structure: Claudio Sepúlveda

Construction: Claudio Bravo

Sanitary project: Marcelo Valenzuela

Electrical project: Juan Aroca

Hitting project: Mauricio Comas

Constructive system: Reinforced concrete, wooden beams

Exterior finishing: Aluminium-zinc tiles HD 20/40, PVC window frames

Interior finishing: Painted plaster, wooden and stone floors

Model photography: Ana Crovetto

Architecture photography: Cristobal Palma