This vacation villa’s design creates a seamless connection between objects, landscapes, people, and nature through an intuitive approach. In this grand setting, scattered volumes blend effortlessly into the land, preserving its natural state. Subtle terrain modifications allow the building to either sink into the earth, evoking a sense of emergence, or rise and rotate, seeking distant views. This design consistently strives for a harmonious dialogue and balance between the existing and anticipated landscapes.
Route and Experience: Starting from a low-lying area, a gentle upward path reveals distant targets. Approaching the villa, taller vertical elements emerge, making the house unmistakably visible. This journey encourages movement and observation of the expansive landscape from various perspectives. Transitioning from one space to another creates a dynamic, natural, and emotional experience.
Ironically, the vastness of the land presents the greatest challenge in creating a comfortable human experience. Restoring a human scale is essential. Elements such as terraces, observation decks, and thresholds help frame the landscape, offering shelter and preparing visitors to enter the space.
Pause and Escape from Daily Life: The villa is designed to invite people indoors, creating living spaces that integrate with the landscape. Moving from one room to another mirrors the outdoor experience, where constantly changing light and scenery encourage visitors to pause and reflect.
Removing the distractions of daily life, the villa follows the play of light and shadow, embracing roughness and imperfection. This house reveals the hidden qualities of life that emerge through its surface textures and flaws.
Structure and Materials: The chosen materials and construction systems offer the necessary plasticity and multifunctionality to accommodate soil and adapt to the existing terrain. They support large soil areas on stone slabs, allowing vegetation to grow, and withstand the long-term erosion and unpredictable climate of the Andean equatorial region at 3200 meters altitude.
The load-bearing walls support large crossbeams spanning up to 12 meters. This structural design seeks to connect the continuity of interior spaces with the external landscape, creating a light and seamless transition that sharply contrasts with typical concrete constructions.
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