Morla House / Stanaćev Granados


Textual content material description provided by the architects. La Casa Morla is the outcomes of a problem positioned in Matanzas (Chile), a small coastal metropolis well-known for its conditions for water sports activities actions. Because it’s a rental house, we would have liked to optimize the surfaces to the utmost and think about it from an architectural language that may allow us to work with a good value vary realizing that it is going to be executed with non-specialized native labor.



The problem wanted to compactly nevertheless flexibly treatment a program of single-family housing for rent with an house of 120 m2 with residing home, consuming room, kitchen, three bedrooms, two bogs, pantry, cellar, and terrace.



The tactic was to generate a amount based on its relationship with the surface, determined by the precise conditions of the place the place it’s put in: the view over the Pacific Ocean to the north, the strong prevailing south wind, the extraordinary west photo voltaic, and the coveted japanese photo voltaic.



Demediated amount: the house is a physique of antagonistic faces with an abstract, closed, and mysterious southwest facet that turns into figurative and extroverted on its north and east facades. To understand this, a single supplies is used – black-stained pine wood – labored in a gradual and boarded method on one facet and leaving the laminated wood building seen on the alternative.



Liquid home: as throughout the story of Garcia Marquez, to dilute the dichotomy inside, producing a kind of fluid state, the within of the house is roofed with the an identical black wood, a undeniable fact that seeks to stress the surface whereas balancing the depth of sunshine, reflections, and shadows, producing proper right here moreover a positive distinction between the luminosity of the precept areas and the penumbra of those transitional areas that function as a diaphragm. The black inside pores and pores and skin, the hidden skylight, the open staircase, the sliding door of the lounge, and the white horizontal planes of the ceilings make this play of nuances attainable.



Promenade: to accentuate the idea of regular and fluid home, one different assortment of gestures are proposed, akin to entry by means of a walkway to how entry a ship is, which allows us to spice up the precept diploma of the house with views over the ocean. Upon coming into, the precept home is be taught at a glance, the place the open inside staircase is immediately provided, leaving the lower yard in an entire seen. The terrace extends the within home of the lounge and mattress room, promoting circulation and use from the floor.



Twin makes use of: with the idea of flexibility in one of the best ways the house is used and maximizing its flooring, a group of multifunctional elements are proposed: the kitchen will also be the stair landing, the pantry is positioned throughout the circulation within the route of the rest room and the primary bed room, the circulation on the lower diploma serves as a gifted multipurpose home, whereas the entry walkway will also be cherished in its place terrace.

