The project

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Architects: GITC arquitectura

Location: Del Valle, Chicureo, Colina, Región Metropolitana, Chile

Architects In Charge: Felipe Vera Buschmann, Rodrigo Belmar Expósito (GITC)

Area: 4800.0 sqm

Project Year: 2010

Photographs: Felipe Díaz Contardo

Construction: GITC Construcción

Area: 230 m2

Site Area: 4.800 m2

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From the architect. The projectDetached house, for a marriage, two children and services. Public areas on the first floor and private spaces in the second. In this higher volume, parents and children are parted; the first to de east and the children to the west. On the second floor, the ends of each volume has the most private places to finish in the center with the most common areas (father desk and TV/multimedia room for children); creating a large central volume of double height; which contain the relations and nexus (both foot how sight) between this double duality (private / public and children / parents)
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Plan 1

The materialsConcrete, steel and native woodsA dialogue between the weight and mass of Concrete with the lightness and warmth of the wood. The base structure on the first and second floors is concrete, delivering a "stu...