Bright red roofs stand out in the setting of this house in Malalcahuello, Chile, which Santiago firm Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has built from CNC-cut wood.
Casa Malalcahuello has an impressive natural setting that includes a mountainous backdrop, the Malalcahuello National Reserve and Lonquimay Volcano to its north, and the nearby Conguillo National Park and Cautín River to the south.
The house has a mountainous backdrop
GAAA divided Casa Malalcahuello into two offset gabled volumes ? similar to the layout of a rural house the studio completed by the ocean in Chile. Casa Malalcahuell's volumes are raised above a sloped site by a plinth and arranged so as to offer different vistas from various points inside the house.
"The superior volumes are oriented towards the forest and volcano," said GAAA. "The common areas are protected by the heavy roof and enjoy a panoramic view to observe one of the most incredible landscapes of Chile." It is built into a sloped site
Each volume has two pitched roofs with a smaller one laid on top of the larger one to create extra height to the interior of the house.
Casa Malalcahuello's roofing is made from Instapanel PV6, ridged panels produced by Chilean company Citanc from a material it describes as Zincalum, which is a sheet of steel protected by alloys of aluminium and zinc.
The gabled red roofs are layered
The panels are pre-painted a bold red to stand out in the snowfall, as shown in these photos by Crist...