The geometry only pretends to answer the question of how a house can be deformed by events occurring within the surrounding landscape, be they far or close to it. The operation was compatible with a particular request of the client: a clear division of interior spaces. These were finally connected through voids that separate but still permit a visual relation between them, as if they were smaller houses.

The dents in the volume were done with a careful consideration to both far and near events within the landscape, and so each hollow is unique and its form, location and proportion respond to that concern. Some of the thresholds face a distant view, while others show sections of the house itself, the old coniferous nearby wood or the Yarumo trees planted on the edges.

Within the living spaces the roof projects the section to the exterior. In the circulation areas there are voids of long or smaller sizes. In this case, conversely, the roof contracts the section.

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• Architects

  Paisajes Emergentes

• Location

  Retiro, Colombia

• Category

  Houses

• Structural Design

  Jorge Aristizabal

• Collaborators

  Juan Carlos Aristizabal, Farid Maya, Erica Martinez and Sebastian Monsalve

• Contractor

  Gedesa

• Area

  480.0 m2

• Project Year

  2010

• Photographs

  Cristobal Palma