The house designed by the BeAr studio is not dug into the ground, nor is it placed on plinths; it rests on the ground seeking to levitate, respecting the pronounced natural slope beneath the house. The supports of this narrow and long house are strategically placed, seeking the rocky stratum.
The studio places great value on the choice and work of materials, abandoning the mannerisms of rigging and the worlds of plasterboard. The structure of the house is made of wood, supported by a roof made of "Sandwich" panels of plywood and rock wool. For the vertical envelope, rock wool insulation panels are used with plywood as interior and exterior finishes
Nahinuena by BeAr. Photograph by Luis Díaz Díaz.
Project description by BeAr
The house seeks its design responses in its topographic conditions. Narrow and long, neither excavated nor on rubble plinths, the house sits seeking to levitate, maintaining the pronounced natural slope of the land beneath it and carefully placing its supports, seeking the rocky stratum.
Although, supported by the fact that few will launch into reading this text, the studio ventured to fly over the project. It believes that a large part of the architectural dispute of our days is in the position fixed in front of the construction, beyond formal capacities, in the choice and work with the materials. Without romanticizing, in the virtue of being, without mannerisms of the rigging or self-absorbed worlds of plasterboard. In being, with little and pride. Without more, I hope that Nahinuena can be and make its wonderful inhabitants be.
