Painted fibre-cement panels enclose the warm, wooden interiors of the SP House that (E)StudioRO has completed overlooking Tunquén beach in Chile.
The dwelling was commissioned by a family living in Santiago, who desired a beachside getaway that could also function as their future home.
The brief given to local architect (E)StudioRO was open for interpretation, with the client's only desire for it to be "easy to build" and crowned by a distinctive triangular-shaped roof.
SP House overlooks Tunquén beach in Chile
"The brief was quite open, the owners literally wanted a weekend house that they could use as their permanent home in the future," (E)StudioRO said.
"Their idea was to spend weekends and vacations there, with an intent to possibly move there at some point in the future." It is clad in grey and teal-hued fibre-cement panels
To meet the client's request for an easy-to-build house, (E)StudioRO's design evolved from a material palette that was affordable and could be easily sourced.
The result is a timber structure wrapped by fibre-concrete panels and teamed with aluminium window frames and an asphalt membrane roof.
The client's only request was that the house had a pitched roof
"The main idea was to use cheap and easy to find materials," founder Rodrigo Valenzuela Jerez told Dezeen. "A small group of skilled carpenters built the entire house."
(E)StudioRO has painted some of the fibre-cement panels used to clad the hou...