Lima studio Barclay & Crousse has completed this house with reddish stone and concrete walls, and dramatically slanted roofs to echo mountains.
Casa Huayoccari is located in the valley of Urubamba, a mountainous setting considered sacred by the Incas. The house appears to be enclosed by the Pitusiray mountain range, which provided the cues to design the house in separate volumes with mono-pitched roofs.
The Pitusiray mountain range appear to enclose Casa Huayoccari
"Casa Huayoccari stands at 2,950 metres above sea level, in a special place within the valley, giving the impression of being in the centre of a circle of surrounding mountains, and not in a lineal valley, which is in fact the case," said Barclay & Crousse.
"The project does not refer to the traditional architecture of the valley, but instead the mountains which surround it." In addition to the rooftops, the house is designed to step down the sloped site ? the firm has also landscaped outdoor areas into terraces.
The house has an L-shaped plan around a patio
"The sloping land is treated with stone made terraces and a platform which generates a horizontal ground for the house to be installed on," it explained.
"The traditional gable roof is decomposed in two planes adopting the pitch of the surrounding mountains and thus generating spatial compressions that frame the low valley and spatial dilatations, which lead towards the Pitusiray mountain."

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