Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
19/01/2018.
[Chiloé Province] Chile
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Sitting atop a pleasant and continuous evergreen meadow, overlooking the inner sea of Chiloe Island is located in the Rode House de Pezo von Ellrichshausen.
Exterior view. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Exterior view. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Exterior view. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Interior view. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Interior view. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Interior view. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Night view. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Perspective. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Perspective. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Perspective. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Model. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Perspective. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Perspective. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Model. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Photograph by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Site plan. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen.
Planta baja. Vivir en la curva. Casa Rode por Pezo von Ellrichshausen.
Ground floor plan. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen.
Roof plan. Ground floor plan. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen.
Elevation. Ground floor plan. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen.
Sections. Ground floor plan. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen.
Sections. Ground floor plan. Living in the curve. Rode House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen.
The house designed by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen founders of Pezo von Ellrichshausen is made out of local timber. The structure is defined by the polar array of forty-five rigid frames. While walls and ceilings are clad with boards, a traditional thin wooden shingle covers the conic roof.
Description of project by Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Sitting atop a pleasant and continuous evergreen meadow, overlooking the inner sea of Chiloe Island, this is both a half and a double house. Half, because it is the interrupted encounter between a cone and a cylinder.
Double, because the subtraction of a rectangular form at the base of the previous figures generates a pair of equivalent rooms at the extremes of a linear sequence, one facing the direct yellow sun and the other the indirect and blue one.
There is a large space contained by these parallel rooms; a partially paved court that is protected from the rain in two covered corners and from the strong winds on three sides. These sides are conceived as functional widths, as emptied thick walls containing all the domestic facilities.
The presence of the whole curved case is rather asymmetrical: from one side it stands as a massive and hermetic fortified refuge, from the other it appears as a large pitched roof almost without supporting walls.
The entire construction is made out of local timber. The structure is defined by the polar array of forty-five rigid frames. While walls and ceilings are clad with boards, a traditional thin wooden shingle covers the conic roof. Knowing that the island is not only well known for the exuberant myths and legends but for a refined artisanal carpentry knowledge expressed both in churches and boats, accepting that something of that local knowledge would inform our project, we preferred to had in mind that delicate artlessness of a totally forgotten wooden padlock.
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Architects
Mauricio Pezo, Sofía von Ellrichshausen
Collaborators
Diego Pérez, Findlay Barge, Caitlyn Flowers, Victoria Bodevin.
Structure.- Luis Mendieta
Area
200.00 m²
Site Area.- 48,500 m²
Dates
Design year.- 2015. Completed year.- 2017
Suplies
Marcelo Valenzuela, Daniel Garrido
Contractor
Ricardo Ballesta
Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen. Pezo von Ellrichshausen
Pezo von Ellrichshausen is an art and architecture studio founded in 2002 by Mauricio Pezo (b. Renaico, Chile, 1973) ) and Sofia von Ellrichshausen (b. Bariloche, Argentina, 1976). They live and work in southern Chile, on a farm at the foot of the Andes Mountains.
They are Professor of the Practice at AAP Cornell University in New York and have been Visiting Professors at the GSD Harvard University, the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, the University of Texas in Austin, the Porto Academy and the Universidad Catolica de Chile.
Their work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the MAXXI in Rome and as part of the Permanent Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They have been invited to the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition (2010, 2016), where they also were the curators for the Chilean Pavilion in 2008.
Among other venues, they have lectured at MIT, Princeton University, Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Architecture League of New York, the Tate Modern, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Alvar Aalto Symposium and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Their work has been distinguished with the Mies Crown Hall Americas Emerge Prize by the IIT, the Rice Design Alliance Prize, the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award and the Chilean Architecture Biennial Award.
The work of the studio has been widely published and edited in monographic issues of El Croquis, AV in Madrid, A+U in Tokyo, 2G in Barcelona and in the essay books Spatial Structure (B Architecture publisher) and Naïve Intention (Actar).
Mauricio Pezo (b. 1973) completed a Master in Architecture at the Universidad Catolica and a degree in Architecture at the Universidad del Bio-Bio. He has been awarded the Young Architect Prize by the Chilean Architects Association and the Municipal Art Prize by the Concepcion City Hall.
Sofia von Ellrichshausen (b. 1976) holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires where she was distinguished with the FADU- UBA Honours Diploma. She was the president of the jury at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition (2018).
They are Professor of the Practice at AAP Cornell University in New York and have been Visiting Professors at the GSD Harvard University, the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, the University of Texas in Austin, the Porto Academy and the Universidad Catolica de Chile.
Their work has been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the MAXXI in Rome and as part of the Permanent Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They have been invited to the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition (2010, 2016), where they also were the curators for the Chilean Pavilion in 2008.
Among other venues, they have lectured at MIT, Princeton University, Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Architecture League of New York, the Tate Modern, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Alvar Aalto Symposium and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Their work has been distinguished with the Mies Crown Hall Americas Emerge Prize by the IIT, the Rice Design Alliance Prize, the Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial Award and the Chilean Architecture Biennial Award.
The work of the studio has been widely published and edited in monographic issues of El Croquis, AV in Madrid, A+U in Tokyo, 2G in Barcelona and in the essay books Spatial Structure (B Architecture publisher) and Naïve Intention (Actar).
Mauricio Pezo (b. 1973) completed a Master in Architecture at the Universidad Catolica and a degree in Architecture at the Universidad del Bio-Bio. He has been awarded the Young Architect Prize by the Chilean Architects Association and the Municipal Art Prize by the Concepcion City Hall.
Sofia von Ellrichshausen (b. 1976) holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires where she was distinguished with the FADU- UBA Honours Diploma. She was the president of the jury at the Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition (2018).
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