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Santiago de Chile
2010 - 2011
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The client´s expectations for a single-family residence had a conflict: between their expressed spatial wishes and the maximum floor area allowed for by legal DFL2 standards. Since the site allowed either a single-family house or a settlement to be built, we developed a design that could grow from a single-family residence to a duplex when additional space was needed in the future. As a result, the design is characterized by a symmetrical doubling of drive-way, staircase and entrance door. Two large cantilevers of the second floor create shaded outdoor terraces that can later be easily enclosed. The design pushes the typology of the single family home further, to be able to adapt to future changes in terms of family growth, live/work proximity and aging.
FAR frohn&rojas
Project Team: Marc Frohn, Mario Rojas Toledo, Max Koch , Natalia Becerra, Isabel Miño, Marius Helten, Katharina Laekamp, Pia Custodis, Nike Grote, Laura Fuchs, Jorge Contreras, Luan Lee
Consultants: Prof. Wolfgang Winter – Tragwerksplanung und Ingenieurholzbau Institut für Architekturwissenschaften TU-Wien
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possibility of developing a single family residence or a settlement of multiple units (a), desgin strategies of symmetrically doubling key features and cantilevering the upper floor (b), single family house can be split into duplex and terraces underneath cantilevers of upper floor can be closed easily in the future (c)
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floor plans
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elevations showing symmetries of the house
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terraces underneath the cantilevered upper floor
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