Seasonal house
location: marina lancheros, ancon, peru
client: private
design team: s. barclay – j.p. crousse
project team: e. zambrano, b. ruiz
built surface: 547 m2
completion: 2017
photographer: c. palma
Exhibited in: GA Houses Project 2017 - GA Gallery, Tokyo
Published in: Arquitectura Viva 211 - 2019 / En Blanco 26 - 2019 / GA Houses 162 - 2019 / GA Houses 151 - 2017 / Architectural Review - 2017 / Summa+ 154 - 2016
The house is conceived as a soil extrusion rather than an object in the landscape. Framing views is not a priority, but the creation of a microcosm that allows understanding its unique features by revealing its hidden qualities.
The house breaks up in different volumes that create platforms for life. Four platforms are created: one for cars and services, two sheltering the bedrooms and offering open planted surfaces above, and one dedicated to social activities, covered by a series of concrete vaults that anchor the space underneath to the ground. By cantilevering one of them, the house seems an unfinished structure, as a temporary layer laid upon many other ones defining the landscape.
