Swiss architecture studio Emergentes Architectures Sàrl designed a linear beach house with angled concrete columns and wood cladding on the coast of Chile.
Completed in 2024, the 220-square metre (2,370-square foot) Dreal House is located on a gently sloping, 0.25 acre lot in Playa Hermosa.
Emergentes Architectures Sàrl has completed a beach house in Chile
Emergentes Architectures Sàrl, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, designed the trapezoidal house to shelter from its neighbours on three sides and be entirely open to the Pacific Ocean on the other.
The load-bearing structure, with its vertical square columns rotated 45 degrees and diagonal reinforced concrete pillars, "is the house's identifying expression and at the same time the one that organizes it spatially," the team told Dezeen. The trapezoidal house is wrapped in a solid facade on three sides
The exterior columns and four central braces support a reinforced concrete slab that serves as the roof and the upper terrace, while leaving the main level open and flexible.
The sea-facing facade is composed of floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors in thin white frames.
In contrast, the eastern facade is a dense barrier to the neighbours with dark wooden boards closing most of the wall, save a linear clerestory window that runs the length of the house and a light wood door set into the centre of the plan.
The house is supported by vertical square columns
A charcoal grey wooden parapet runs down the long facades for...