Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has cantilevered a glass and red-painted wood house off a forested cliffside near the sea in Chile with layers that create "increasing levels of intimacy".
Painted a vibrant red, the elevated 2,100-square foot (195-square metre) house is located in Detif, Chiloé, Chile.
Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has cantilevered a house off a forested cliffside in Chile
Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados (GAAA), a studio based in Santiago, constructed the house from 2020 to 2021.
The design was inspired by the thaumatrope toy, which has a bird on one side and a cage on the other of a rotating panel. Spinning the toy creates an optical illusion that the bird is simultaneously inside and outside the cage. The design was informed by a children's game
"The project in Detif is inextricably linked with its surrounding myrtle forest," the studio told Dezeen.
"Its outer layer is the forest itself, and its interior layers form increasing levels of intimacy within the strong and beautiful surroundings of the archipelago."
A red wooden lattice wraps the home
Set up on a platform, the plan is formed by a series of concentric rectangles.
The outermost layer comprises a loggia that runs all the way around the plan, created by a thin, red wooden lattice with a delicate red railing.
Light timber was used for the kitchen
"The linear red elements follow the natural rhythm of the copper-coloured spindling trunks of the...