The painter’s studio has been erected to one side of a house in Bahía Azul. A small space, it appears to be a prolongation of the terrain when seen from the entrance, but from the slope it stands out as a piece embedded in the hillside.

The space, ultimately conceived as the prolongation of its own window frame, mediates between the sea and an interior garden located at the entrance. Reached by a narrow staircase, excavated out of the rock, it leaves the user in complete isolation.

It is a sort of retreat from the surrounding constructions, basically just a wall with indirect sunlight entering from above to paint by.

The rigidity and horizontality of the design reinforce the diagonal lines of the main house.

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La entrada Painting studio se publicó primero en Global Spaces.

The construction appears leaning out on the seashore, like the stations on the shore of the train line to the north of Chile, where after having fallen into disuse only the solid has remained. Everything “perishable” has succumbed to looting and time. Containers emptied of everything, with their only rectangular perforations in the walls, distributed along an imaginary line.

The project was approached independently from the specific location and it was decided to break up the program separating bedrooms, dining room-kitchen and living room in order to ensure total independence between them. Monolithic reinforced concrete containers were designed with a perforation regime that ensured versatility of placement and association between the volumes, which were not pre-determined.

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La entrada House in Bahía Azul se publicó primero en Global Spaces.