This is about a weekend house, located on a 5,000 sqm lot in the Hacienda los Aromos, nearby Limache, (middle-west Chile). Program and overall Budget required from us that every architectural decision were same effective and efficient.

© Felipe Fontecilla

Architects: Ricardo Torrejón, Arturo Chadwick

Location: Limache, Limache, Valparaiso, Chile

Construction: Arturo Chadwick

Area: 129.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Felipe Fontecilla

© Felipe Fontecilla

From the architect. This is about a weekend house, located on a 5,000 sqm lot in the Hacienda los Aromos, nearby Limache, (middle-west Chile). Program and overall Budget required from us that every architectural decision were same effective and efficient.
© Felipe Fontecilla

The house itself is a 4 winged volume that clearly spreads the program inside, but still keeps the coherence and totality of a single body. Besides meeting the interior requirement, we thought that the house should act as an object on the landscape, defining certain territorial order, giving hints of four definite areas outside: entrance, service, principal and children.

First Floor Plan

The volume is placed on a flat spot at the upper part of a gentle slope, so that the 3,40m interior height turns into a lofty space once the slope increases...