A black holiday home by Chilean architecture studio Elton Léniz is lifted off the ground by wooden stilts to help reduce the building's impact on the earth.
Casa BB rises up from a slender, wooded site along Lake Calafquén in southern Chile. Just beyond the lake is Villarrica, one of the country's most active volcanoes.
Elton Léniz designed the house on stilts to overlook a Chilean lake
The building serves as a vacation house for a couple with two children. Santiago-based Elton Léniz aimed to capitalise on the scenery while also providing a sense of privacy.
"The narrow proportion of the site suggested a small, vertical design that would maximise unobstructed views of the impressive geography while freeing up as much space as possible between neighbouring buildings," the team said. A micro-perforated screen mitigates sun exposure
To reduce exposure to ground moisture and to minimise disturbance to the hillside, the team propped the house up on wooden supports.
"This compact house sits almost like a container on a wooden structure, with minimal intervention in the terrain and the slope," the team said.
Cuts and openings connect occupants to the outdoors
Facades are clad in Quadroline aluminium panels from Hunter Douglas ? a low-maintenance material with simple, vertical lines.
The panels' black colour helps the home blend with the terrain.
The compact house resembles a container
On the north is a micro-perforated screen that mitigates sun exposure whi...