Casa Altamira

Photography by Rodrigo Montoya / Joan Puigcorbé We conceive architecture as a language across which properties can express themselves such as: harmony, creativity, happiness, beauty, poetry, complexity, magic, provocation and culture. In our architecture we put emphasis on the quality of the experience of living; we look for pleasure in its deepest forms, a journey through the landscape where one finds the place of thought, the refuge of the mind and the satisfaction by means of sensory and ideal declarations. This house establishes an intimate, woven and direct relationship with the topography and with the existing vegetation. In a descending promenade the diverse spaces are articulated between water courtyards and vegetation, until one approaches the great room, which in only one gesture turns into a great porch, with seamless continuity between the interior and the exterior. Every bedroom, arranged step by step, has its own exterior private space and garden, protected and intimate, and at the same time links to a common open pathway through the landscape. The swimming pool acts as hinge between the built space and the garden. The garden is protected from inward external views and the views of the west, with a visual horizon that allows …

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Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt

Architects: Dörr + Schmidt
Location: , Valparaíso Region, Chile
Architect In Charge: Manuel Dörr, Pablo Schmidt
Area: 662 sqm
Project Year: 2013
Photographs: Marcos Zegers

From the architect. The project is located in the base of the range that surrounds the Aconcagua Valley in a 10 acres park, surrounded by avocado trees plantations and is tied to the ground by three walls of concrete that opens to the plain. The house lies between these walls generating a series of patios that graduate the space from the interior of the house to the valley. This manner of graduating the space between interior and exterior is inspired in the old colonial of the Aconcagua valley.

Also rescue the pureness of lines and horizontality of the patrimonial houses of the valley together with the rhythm produced by the repetition of  volumes and pillars .

The house was built mainly using recycled woods except for the cover of the interior walls where pine tree planks was used.  The pillars of the house originally was part of the structure of tunnels of the old train that crossed Los Andes Mountains from Santiago,  Chile to the Argentinian  city of Mendoza.

Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt © Marcos Zegers
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt Site Plan
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt Section A A'
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt Section B B'
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt Section C C'
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt Section D D'
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt Section E E'
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt Section G G'
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt Section F F'
Casa de Madera / Dörr + Schmidt Roof Floor Plan

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