The project was born as a development of a single-family housing unit inside a new urban development, which is located within the political-administrative limits of the municipality of Belalcázar in Caldas, Colombia.
For the project, the client requested the development of a design for a house that should allow to live a young couple without children, as well as an additional room for guests. It was also required a total of two floors in order not only to physically divide the spaces of the bedrooms from the spaces most used during the day (living room, dining room, kitchen and laundry room), but also to take advantage of the privileged views of it´s surroundings.
It is agreed that the house projects the image of a modern and compact building, using a limited palette of materials (mainly concrete and wood in facades). Volumetrically, a box composed of exposed concrete panels is designed. This box is only drilled in its north and south facades, thus avoiding the direct entry of solar radiation during the the day. The joints, openings and entrances to the project intend to carve the solidity of the house in an obvious way, thus insinuating the entrances and spaces of a social nature inside the house. The main façade is projected in a cantilever in order to cast shadows and frame the view on the surrounding landscape. The generated frame becomes a container that visually unifies each of the openings in the house.
At the landscape level, all the free areas of the property should have abundant vegetation. In this way it is intended for the project to give the illusion of being a house lost in the trees, visually isolated from the houses located in the neighboring properties. At night, the house becomes a beacon of light, guiding the inhabitants and visitors in the middle of the forest.