Las Vizcachas House - Beach Home Design With Prefabricated Wooden Panels

This project seeks to question certain notions about living and how we relate to the environment. Its design frames a segment of the landscape to transform it into an exterior refuge, placing special emphasis on the structural elements that define the limits between what is built and what is inherited by nature. The first approach to the site, located in a private condo on the central north coast of Chile, was mediated by abundant wild vegetation and by a series of rock clusters that touched tangentially, generating among them voids of different sizes and shapes. This image was the inspiration for a design that transformed those stones into habitable volumes and the voids in the different patios that are part of the project. Casa Las Vizcachas is the second home of an adult man who hopes that in the future it will become his permanent residence; this determined a specific program segmented into 3 blocks. The largest one houses the master bedroom with private bathroom, as well as the integrated l