seaside townhouse
location: punta hermosa, lima, peru
client: private
design team: s. barclay – j.p. crousse
project team: a. castro - j.m. chinchay
built surface: 940 m2
completion: 2013
photographer: c. palma
publications: GA Houses 164 - 2019 / GA Document 150 - 2019 / Summa+ 140 - 2015
The traditional beach town of Punta Hermosa, 45km south of Lima, is the scenery for this summer house, located in a consolidated urban area. The porch, a traditional space in Peruvian coastal houses, is taken as a founding element for the project. The social area is transformed into an outdoor, shaded space, framing views on the Pacific Ocean. This large, contemporary porch is conceived as an interior landscape, which relates to the exterior one to redefine each other.
