The radical, four-bedroom vacation house is part of the Ochoalcubo project – a pioneering ‘architectural laboratory’ led by the entrepreneur and architecture lover Eduardo Godoy. Leading Chilean and Japanese practices including Aravena, Smiljan Radic, Toyo Ito and Sou Fujimoto were asked to design a series of ground-breaking homes on the coast of Ochoquebradas. — The Spaces
Pritzker Prize-winner Alejandro Aravena uses the Chilean landscape of Coquimbo to create a weekend home oozing with dramatic appeal and a moody ancient beauty. The vacation home is comprised of three large concrete volumes specifically stacked one against the other. Sitting on a hilltop overlooking the Chilean coast, the home, at first glance exudes an "ancient" looking quality.
The massively rugged, boulder like structure was heavily influenced by primitivistic values. Its simplistic exterior is carried through out the entire house. The interiority of the space reflects modernist principles that focus on a flow of indoor/outdoor space and a loyalty to basic materials.
At the center of the home is a large fire pit that accents the room without frills. The exposed concrete surfaces found through out the structure complement the floor-to-ceiling glass walls that can be found in each of the four levels of the home.
The coastal vacation home is currently on the market for $1.53 million.
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Hitler's Atlantiq Wall bunker in France. Much more comfy.
It's so curvy... just like Eva!
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Love the house, but $1.53M? WHY. Capitalism makes no sense anymore.
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look at how unequal Chile is, this is snobbery at its finest, a gated community with only houses designed by "famous" people, doesn't matter if you build a shithole, it will be photographed, published in the glossiest magazines and sold for an outrageous price.
not the profession, the human species
god that looks like utter shit
"Alluring" as in cold and hostile.
Love the landscaping, too!
*made possible by unpaid interns
Not getting paid is already abusive enough I suppose, or was Aravena on that Shitty Architects spreadsheet too?
my toddler would just love that sandbox.
alluring prickster - and there will be someone who will pay the 1.5 to be forever cold and depressed.....can you remind me why is he so famous?
so what?
oh, I see , you're the measure of how known somebody is; just like 'merica is the measure of all things under the sun.
Aravena only won a Pritzker and was curator of the Venice Biennale, oh and he did a Ted Talk in 2014.
He gave a lecture to my uni in 2008.
He did totally act like a douche though... claimed that although (at the time) he worked in very poor areas, he still wanted to be paid what he believed he was worth (which he implied was very high). I think this was in response to a 1st year question.
Non, don't know the context of the question, but he did get paid a lot for doing those half-built communities - the biggest oil merchant in chile put together a charity to employ aravena and a bunch of yuppies in different fields, and they set forth with this crusade. This was aravena's launch to stardom, taking credit for decades of trial and error projects that tried to address the housing problems in chile.
JLC, I believe you've hit the spot with that comment and I was not aware (or do not remember) of the funding behind that initial project. I believe the question was somewhat in the realm of: "Can one make a living from designing solutions to poverty?"
Having a rich oil merchant backing AA's project definitively skews the answer.
isn't it always how stars are born? with a sugar daddy?
sugar daddy (m/f)
Lady of the house: "Of course it's cold, it's Chilean"
my only complaint is that the building is finished. If it were 1/2 a house it could have fetched 3m and got a write up in the Times as the future of housing
this is not housing, it's a dwelling, an abode, a residence fit for your 21st century success. But you're right, poor marketing strategy.
I went to the Southeby website to look at this thing. Apparently the main highway between behind the house has been closed due to a massive landslide. The boyz at Southeby may want to rethink their marketing photos.
No redeeming qualities here. I'm betting that even rich people are smart enough not to buy this "house".
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