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.

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.

Floor Plan 1

The resulting brick structure spans the length of the site, the southern facade playing with brick solids and semitransparency’s to create a sense of security and privacy from within; the northern facade with floor to ceiling windows, creating luminous and uninterrupted living space with the garden as a backdrop.

© Nico Saieh

• Architects

  Max-A Arquitectura + Arquitectura del Paisaje

• Location

  Vitacura, Chile

• Category

  Houses

• Author Architects

  Max Noguera, Alejandra Marambio

• Area

  130.0 m2

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Nico Saieh