Architects: Architekten, Felipe Palacios + Johann Moeller
Area: 209 m²
Year: 2021
Photographs: Bicubik
The Block Bond House explores an architecture removed from formal exercises and approaches a thoughtful solution of spatial and construction poetics.
It constitutes a response that articulates the requirements of a young family, enhances the inherent relationships of the site, and reveals the tectonic material qualities into a piece of elegant contemporary simplicity with an expressive and warm character.
The predominance of an avocado tree, accompanied by a series of lemon trees, set the pattern for generating a dromos or entrance passage that acts as a transition space from public to private space and ends in the natural threshold formed by the avocado canopy and the house’s entrance hall.
Following the vestibule, a diaphanous space of light appears which contains the social area and captures the rear garden trees and the stream. This social space is wide, open, and flexible.
The levitating wooden roof shelters a large living room that opens inviting the garden inside. This place of stay exudes material texture, freshness, and multiple transparencies.
The relationship between interior and exterior is blurred through large folding doors that allow the garden to enter the living room and vice versa.
