This house by Chilean studio Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados has mesh and polycarbonate walls to reflect the shadows of trees in daytime and light up at night.
Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados designed the 54-square-metre house to blend into its location in an area of Curicó, Chile, with a forest on one side and a river on the other.
Golden mesh cloaks polycarbonate and wood walls
"The project was conceived as an object that doesn't belong to the site, that can disappear at any moment, and that talks to us of a transitory condition of occupation of the forest," said Guillermo Acuña Arquitectos Asociados (GAAA).
La Invernada is built atop a wooden deck
Called La Invernada, it has a laminated Chilean pinewood structure, walls of eight-millimetre-thick monolithic, flexible polycarbonate, and a protective mesh covering laid on top. Shadows form on the golden-coloured mesh walls in the day, while at night they glow with artificial light.
The house has slanted walls and a curved roof formed of Chilean pinewood
"Transparency plays with this impermanence as it reflects the projected shadows of the forest on its skin and the movements of it during the day," the studio explained.
"The textile layer takes on the role of tinting the light gold ? the colour of the oak leaves in the fall ? during the day, and acting as a sacrificial cover in storms, protecting the tent from hooks and branches that could crack the second layer, which protects from ...