Chilean House - Smiljan Radic

These two houses -actually there´s only one built- recall the houses of tenant farmers in the Chilean countryside: the existing walnut trees haven´t been touched, the outside has been denied thanks to a whitewashed perimetral wall.

An inner courtyard with the possibility of being covered with an agricultural tarpaulin fixed to its wall to provide shade, an austere living room with bits of an exterior spread throughout the courtyard, a roof of painted untreated wood and bedrooms painted in bold colours.

Architect: Smiljan Radic Clarke

Location: Los Lirios, Rancagua, Chile

Collaborators: Danilo Lazcano, Gonzalo Torres

Structural Engineer: Claudio Assar Olguín

Technical Inspection: Smiljan Radic

Contractor: Eugenio Durán

Constructive System: Masonry

Project Year: 2005

Construction Year: 2006

Site Area: 1600 sqm

Constructed Area: 210 sqm

Photographs: Gonzalo Puga