Abanico House

Abanico House is distributed and organized through orthogonal volumes. Articulated boxes create openings at their contact points, which also adds a new volume to contain gardens. These apertures were clad in untreated Choibá wood. This will make noticeable the passage of time as the wood acquires a patina and changes color.

In the case of Abanico House, the programs have four volumes: one for the parking area, another for the family area and kitchen—the join where the house’s entrance is located—and another for the master bedroom, and finally one for the children’s bedrooms and a studio. This organization gave a certain autonomy to each volume and section, the roofs with their different pitches were formally referenced to the mountain silhouettes. The contours of each of these parts became expressive, becoming a complete surface.

Although most of the plans respond more to a diffuse perimeter, the silhouette/mountain—the section—and the built space always seeks variation within the surface of the enclosure and of the volume’s definition. The section, with its mountainous silhouette, acquires meaning if we bring into the picture a naturalist approach to architecture that connects processes both to its uses and occupations and to the dynamics of what is alive.