Description:

The project is located in the Municipality of El Retiro (Antioquia), on a flat area at the bottom of a sloping lot, surrounded by vegetation and a small forest at the top.

It is conceived as a spatial system that, based on a single extruded section, is capable of addressing all the spatial and relational needs of the house. The entire program is developed from this simple idea.

Three longitudinal volumes are proposed in the direction of the terrain’s levels, shifting and perforating to articulate the different spaces of the house and its surroundings.

The program is divided into these three volumes: a social and service area, a bedroom area, and a central pavilion that acts as an articulator between the other two.

Access is through this last volume, a “”void”” composed of the foyer, the inner courtyard, and the study – spaces without walls, only delimited by glass walls that allow for the continuity of the landscape.

The functional scheme of the house rescues and reinterprets the structure of the traditional patio house from Antioquian colonization architecture. The patio consists of a garden of aquatic plants and native vegetation that acts as the heart of the system, allowing for visual connections (transparency) and improving the lighting and ventilation conditions of the house.