Mountain House 1

Hill House 1 was originally intended for a family weekend house. However, due to unexpected changes in the family organization, the project was expanded and became Casa Montaña 2.

Hill House 1 was understood as a landscape perception device, organized from an open plan and a window that looks towards the city of Medellín.

Its materiality allows us to relate to the geography and the environment in a particular way. On one hand, it was covered with a black stone, which would emphasize its volume in an abstract way. This abstraction would contrast with a covering of red plastic blinds that would help control the sunset. The combination of these two elements would contrast with the green of the landscape but at the same time, due to the qualities of its volume, it seems as if this piece had always been there.

On the roof, trying to emphasize the abstract condition but linked to the place, a citronella garden would be planted, which would not only be seen as an extension of the mountain or the existing garden, but also that its smell would allow protection from mosquitoes and add a dynamic element that, with the passage of the wind, would give another condition to the garden: no longer as a decorative element but as an animated and sensory architecture.