A tree grows through a wooden deck between two angular black volumes that form this house that architect Smiljan Radi? has designed near a national park in Chile.
Prism House + Terrace Room is raised above a sloped terrain near to Conguillío National Park on a stilted, wooden deck.
The Chilean architect said the vantage point offers views down to the dead river of lava from a previous eruption of nearby Llaima Volcano.
A tree grows through the house's wooden deck
Measuring 184 square metres, the residence was split into two volumes that replicate principles in one of Radi?'s earlier projects and Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara's Prism House.
"In truth, this house is an exercise in repetition and replication, it is doing something again, though the gods may anger and the attempt always fails," said Radi?. One volume of the house has a gabled roof elevated on glass walls
One of the structures known as the Room has a gabled roof, while the other known as Prism House is mono-pitched.
Radi? created the latter to draw on the geometrical structure of Prism House, completed by Shinohara in Japan's Yamanashi Prefecture in 1974.
"Its famous lateral facade, a right-angled isosceles triangle laid on the floor, and its exquisite interior diagonal wooden post, which, like many other supports in the houses by this Japanese architect, orders the space by interrupting in a position that seems out of place, are signs of its uncomfortable geometry," said Radi?.
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