Project Credits & Specs
- Architects: Bauen
- Photographs: Federico Cairoli
- Location: San Bernardino, Paraguay
- Area: 483 m2
- Year: 2018
Project Description
The Hillside House is located in San Bernardino, far enough away to drive off the noise, 45 minutes from the city of Asuncion, and close enough to enjoy its privileged nature.
Therefore, the approach of the house on the hillside is implanted in an inclined base plane with more than 30% of an unparalleled view, exuberant vegetation, and a lake as the landscape end, inserted in a protagonist environment.
The hillside is strengthened with the construction of the house as a negative of the topography, modifying the ground as little as possible, positive soil – negative house, allowing the making of a house in 3 levels, upper and lower levels as intimate of bedrooms; and the intermediate level contains the social área, the water mirror as a reflection of the protagonist vegetation, a landscape frame.
The simple composition is given by beams that are separated by an axis of 3 meters between themselves and 3 mts established as a module, 1.5 mts as a submodule, organizing all the spaces and directing the views always to the lake, always to the horizon.
The raw concrete provides the texture and esthetics of the volume, in conjunction with the metal that is presented partly raw and naked.
The respect for the place as a premise, where the vegetation dominates and defines the architecture. We can´t compete with the perfection and beauty of nature, we can only frame it and contemplate it.
The project description is provided by the architects.
About the Architects
Bauen understands architecture as a human process of infinite improvement that is verified through trials. They take each project as an opportunity to experiment and test new spaces, ideas, and technologies. They deeply believe in the capacity of human beings to ‘Improve’ themselves and improve their environment, in a process where creation and the creator blend and mold each other.
