seasonal house
location: cañete, peru
client: private
design team: s. barclay – j.p. crousse
built surface: 172 m2
completion: 2003
photographer: jp crousse
awards:
mies crown hall americas prize - nominated project - emerging architecture - iit, chicago 2014
5th padis prize - padis de cristal al major diseño - apap/confiep/indecopi/produce/prompex - lima, peru, 2005
IV bienal iberoamericana de arquitectura - accésit a la mejor obra construida - lima, 2004
record houses award - excellence in design - architectural record, ny, usa 2004
ar+d emerging architecture prize – highly commended project - architectural review, uk, 2003
The project seeks to create the necessary intimacy to live in the desert and to 'domesticate' it without denying or betraying its characteristics. We started by conceiving a pure solid which would appear to have always been there. During the design process, this theoretical solid was "excavated", removing matter bit-by-bit, just as archaeologists would remove sand to discover the pre-Columbian ruins in this region. The resulting exterior spaces merge with interior spaces in a continuous fluid space within an enclosure that pushes the ambiguity between interior and exterior spaces to its limits.
