Collaborating with Baltazar Sanchez, Mathias Klotz has designed Bitran and Massai houses in Chile. These houses are two independent projects on an explicit slope on the beach of Cachagua with an awesome view of the Pacific Ocean.
Located on the slope of a pine forest on Cachagua beach, Reutter House is a summer house designed by Mathias Klotz. This house is used for a weekend and holiday with the possibility of working in certain periods remotely. It is a 1998 project that consists of two rectangular volumes while the materiality of the house is mixed.
This holiday house is designed by Mathias Klotz and completed in 2015. Fransisca House sits on Coldita Island in the south of Chiloe Island and is used as a refuge to relax for the family, friends, and seafarers. It is a house that was designed with a simple spatial concept and a wooden structure that exposed and also painted in white.
Located in Chile, Raúl House is a family weekend refuge designed in 2007 by Mathias Klotz. It is a second home that sits on a site close to Santiago in the Andean foothills with views of Lake Aculeo, built for a good friend of the architect. In the end, this house is bought by the architect and uses as a weekend house. A series of exterior works in stone is also added to beautify the house.
Designed for an art collector and his family, Caterpillar House is located on the outskirts of Santiago in a new suburban residential area of Chile. Completed in 2012 by Sebastian Irarrazaval and Erick Caro, this house is built from some shipping containers to reduce construction time and costs.
Completed in 2013 by Sebastián Irarrázaval, 2Y House is a project with a 2Y letters diagram to create double orientations. This diagram also exposes the inhabitant of the house to awesome surrounding views. Timber is chosen for the structure not only because it is a local material but it also can resemble the sense of infinity in forests.
It is a 2016 project of a second house with a division program located in Curaumilla, Valparaíso, Chile. Curaumilla House is 135 m² in size designed by Andrés Riveros and Crescente Böhme Alemparte. There are two areas divided, one area is for private and the other one is for the public. A glazed door is also designed to connect the volume in two bodies that oriented in different directions.
There are 5 modules for this house that used: Living Module and Terrace Module, Bathroom + Kitchen Module, Simple Bedroom Module, Matrimonial Bedroom Module, and in addition to a corridor throughout the front area of the house.
The interior still has its continuity of the ceiling due to the use of glass and the strategy of low partitions. This way can create a unitary reading. Besides the wood, this house is also built with SIP panels to generate modular coordination in the construction elements of the house. The combination of the wood and these panels can deliver a comfortable and warm atmosphere inside the house.
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