SUBSTANTIATION

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Architects: GNP Arquitectos

Location: Lo Contador, Providencia, Providencia, Región Metropolitana, Chile

Architect In Charge: Gabriel Navarrete Parra

Area: 400.0 ft2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Sebastián Sepúlveda Vidal

Materiality: Metal, decking plate slab structure, EIFS Exterior insulation in walls and roof projected polyurethane. Outer skin dry pine wood treated and painted with enamel.

Building Company: DA construcciones

Calculation Engineer: Walter Navarrete D

Software: Autocad 2d - 3d, Photoshop, 3D studio

© Sebastián Sepúlveda Vidal
SUBSTANTIATIONThe main intention of this house renovation project was to create an area of ??a main and dominant garden (nonexistent due to the original location of the house) and at the same time highlight and enhance the situation of confrontation to the hill, originally ignored. 

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COMPOSICION AND DEVELOPMENTIn that order, the demolition of 60% of the original house was considered bailing only a parallelepiped volume with gabled roof, which it was used as the module compositional project.  A second outer skin of wood sticks was disposed to cover all this original volume.  With the intention of gener...