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- Architects: Max-A Arquitectura + Arquitectura del Paisaje
- Location: Vitacura, Chile
- Author Architects: Max Noguera, Alejandra Marambio
- Area: 130.0 m2
- Project Year: 2018
- Photographs: Nico Saieh
- Collaborating Architect: Sergio Jarpa
- Construction: Constructora Seus
- Structure: Alberto Ramírez
- Lighting: Paula Martínez, Interdesign
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Text description provided by the architects. The commission – to alter + expand an existing house, updating its standards while working with a reduced budget and constrained site. The project responds to the existing use of brick in an abstraction of straight lines, transparencies and levitating volumes.
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The main entryway and public programs are in the lower level. In the upper level, the original aggregation of roof shapes is replaced by a light-filled volume that houses the master bedroom, gaining views of the lush garden and Santiago’s surrounding hills.
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Floor Plan 1
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The resulting brick structure spans the length of the site, the southern façade playing with brick solids and semitransparency’s to create a sense of security and privacy from within; the northern façade with floor to ceiling windows, creating luminous and uninterrupted living space with the garden as a backdrop.
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