Influenced by Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, this sculptural concrete residence by Santiago studio Gubbins Arquitectos perches on the craggy cliffs of the Chilean coastline .
Casa Mirador was developed by studio co-founder Victor Gubbins as his own vacation house and it sits on the Tunquén coastline, a couple of hours’ drive from the studio’s offices in Santiago.
Concrete was cast in wooden formwork to produce the easy geometric kinds that make up the building, which the architect claims to have borrowed from Le Corbusier’s 1931 Villa Savoye in Poissy, France.
The resulting board marks were left exposed across the walls, unlike the white-rendered walls of the Modernist icon.
The upper floor of Casa Mirador sits on a concrete podium. It features protruding roof and floor slabs that produce cantilevered balconies on either side of the residence. Skylights sit in angular protrusions from the ceiling to provide added lighting.
“The architectural concept displays the memory of three visits to the Villa Savoye in Paris created by Le Corbusier,” said Victor Gubbins, crediting its “basic geometry, solar orientation and communication with the website”.
An inclined walkway leads from the street to 1 of the residence’s elevated terraces, which give views over each the land and sea.
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Living spaces, bedrooms and bathrooms are positioned on the upper floor among the two symmetrical balconies, while a altering room and toilet in the base of the framework give amenities for camping and swimming excursions on the seaside.
A spiral staircase winds via a double-height atrium between the living space and roof, granting accessibility to a further terrace on the building’s flat roof.
The residence was developed by the architect as an escape from the expanding commercialisation of the nearby town of Cachagua, and a retreat from his Santiago-based mostly office.
“Soon after much more than 40 years of enjoying the seaside, the donkeys, the hill trails and coastline of Cachagua a lot of changes have occurred,” stated Gubbins.
“The adjustments in customs, architecture, the use of public spaces, and the arrival of brand and financial institution advertising in the town of Cachagua, 1 of the most beautiful places in the country, drove us to find a new place exactly where silence, the landscape, the individual and neighborhood equality have been prioritised.”
“The landscape of Tunquén is extraordinary,” he added. “We get pleasure from the spot so a lot that we are right here as usually as we can, because in this solitude we locate our currently being and advancement, dedicating ourselves to reading through, writing, watching, walks and talks.”
The location is also property to an idyllic residence perched on a clifftop and a house with exposed structural ribs, which each boast Pacific views.
Studio co-founder Pedro Gubbins previously made his personal loved ones property in a remote component of the Chilean countryside. It too characteristics board-marked concrete and sits atop a stone wall.
Photography is by Marcos Mendizabal.
Undertaking credits:
Architects: Gubbins Arquitectos – Victor Gubbins Browne
Collaborators: Guillermo Perera
Structural calculations: Luis Soler, Juan Erenchun
Soil mechanics: Hector Ventura
Plumbing Patricio Moya and Associates
Electrical: ICG ING.
Solar panels: Flux-solar
Waterproofing: Tapsa S.A.
Windows, doors and thermal panels: Venteko Chile
Heating radiators: Termigas
Sculpture: Roberto Holmes
Building: Bernard Noel
Curtains luxalon: Coldecor
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1st floor prepare 
Roof strategy 
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