Maitén House is a country holiday house located on the southern region of Chile near Puerto Octay city. On the shores of the Llanquihue Lake, overlooking the Puntiagudo, Osorno and Calbuco volcanoes

© Guy Wenborne

Architects: Cristian Hrdalo

Location: Puerto Octay, Los Lagos Region, Chile

Area: 950.0 sqm

Project Year: 2008

Photographs: Guy Wenborne, Cristian Hrdalo

© Guy Wenborne

From the architect. Maitén House is a country holiday house located on the southern region of Chile near Puerto Octay city. On the shores of the Llanquihue Lake, overlooking the Puntiagudo, Osorno and Calbuco volcanoes

© Cristian Hrdalo
This plot of green pastures becomes narrower while descending towards the lake, bounded between two streams with impenetrable forests of Ulmos, with a beach at the lake shore.             

Floor Plan

© Guy Wenborne

Floor Plan

The clients have a very big family, 8 children?s and 12 grandchildren?s, our proposal was to fragment the program into several smaller cabins, giving independence to the families of the sons or guests and then the Maitén House was conceived as a common space to shelter the guest of the cabins and with a master bedroom and 3 rooms for single children?s.

© Cristian Hrdalo

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