Redefining horizontality, Casa bahia azul by Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido
15/06/2017.
[Los Vilos - Coquimbo] Chile
JOSÉ FABERO
JOSÉ FABERO
Project description by Felipe Assadi Arquitectos
The house in Bahía Azul is a actitude against gradient ground. Or, rather, it is the synthesis of this posture, a pavilion that inclines to absorb the pendent of the cliff where it is located.
The uses are developed in several semi levels that relate internally - obviously in horizontal, - taking into account that the Housing has two opposing readings: the interior, in which life passes in a more or less conventional space, in which the views are ordered by a series of hollows in a wall outside the closure of the house. And the exterior, in which the piece, synthetic, abstract, constructs place from the tension produced by the diagonal in front of the inalienable horizontality of the sea.
The hollows, from the distance, take on a different relevance to what they would have as a mere window. They deform the piece taking it to an aspect of ruin, without detail, without accessories or developments after the initial synthesis.
Felipe Assadi is architect from Finis Terrae University 1996, and Master of Architecture from Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. In 1999 he received the 'Premio Promoción Joven' of the Association of Architects of Chile, awarded to the best architect under 35 of the country.
He has taught at several Chilean universities and other foreigners in Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Colombia and USA. From 2011 he serves as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Finis Terrae University.
He has been invited to lecture in Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Argentina, USA, Italy and Spain. His work has been widely published in several countries in magazines like Wallpaper and Architectural Review in London, Arquitectura Viva and AV Monografías in Madrid, Architectural Record in NY, GA Tokyo, Domus and Casabella in Italy among others and in specialized books around the world.
He has participated in exhibitions in Barcelona, Pamplona, London, Quito, Tokyo and Santiago. His work has been developed in Chile, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, United States, Ecuador and Colombia.
Nowadays he has four monographs, in Chile, Spain, Korea and Argentina.