Chilean studio Hebra Arquitectos has completed a wood-clad, T-shaped home that has stylistic elements from barn architecture and juts out into the landscape in order to provide the best views of the terrain.
Located in Chile's Los Rios region, the Apfel House sits atop a ridge overlooking a forested landscape, with vistas of Ranco Lake and the Andes Mountains.
Hebra Arquitectos designed a home in a Chilean valley
Hebra Arquitectos ? a studio based in Vitacura, near Santiago ? designed the single-storey holiday house to embrace the scenic landscape.
The architects took cues from the "volumetry, materiality and horizontality" of old wooden barns in the region.
Roughly T-shaped in plan, the dwelling consists of two conjoined, wood-clad volumes that are topped with a faceted metal roof. The T-shaped form of the house allows for optimal views of the surrounding landscape
"The house was thought as two horizontal arms that together would find the best possible view of the nature around it," the studio said.
"Therefore, these two volumes were placed perpendicular to each other on the highest point of the hill."
A path leads to the main wing which contains a living area and a multipurpose space
The roof height varies, with the lowest points found on the end.
The facades have a plentiful windows and a series of wide openings and cut-outs that give rise to different atmospheres within the home, the team said.

Inside the main arm, one finds three distinc...