Colombian structure studio Cinco Sólidos has renovated a gabled home within the mountains outdoors of Medellín for musician J Balvin to look as a “home within the air”.
The studio used the footprint of a earlier building when designing Casa Aire, which was designed to make the house seem separate from a steep website.
“When it comes to its conceptual improvement, the home revolves across the curiosity of expressing lightness and buoyancy as ideas,” stated the studio.
“The design ensures that its inside and exterior are perceived as separate from the land on which it sits, as if it have been a home within the air.”
With 1,593 sq. metres of residing space, the home was constructed parallel to a slope, having a sequence of rooms that hook up with cantilevered pool decks.
The house was clad in concrete panelling with metal accents that have been painted a light-weight inexperienced and consists of a sequence of gabled volumes with giant swathes of glazing.
Cinco Sólidos took cues from Japanese structure and included a sequence of reflecting swimming pools and courtyards. On the entrance, a sequence of steps leads throughout a reflecting pool transversed by a concrete wall with a round void within the center that acts as a window to a single bonsai tree in the course of the pool.
“Uncooked supplies, reflections in opposition to mirrors of water, dry gardens, coloured gentle and furnishings mixed with the elevation of its geography makes the home a component that detaches from the earth and floats,” stated Cinco Sólidos.
The entrance of the house has strong concrete partitions that body a recessed entryway with a outstanding sliding door.
A glass-lined inside courtyard that hosts one other tree might be seen from the entrance, opening a direct line of sight between the driveway and the panorama.
This courtyard is central to the inside areas because it creates a focus within the public areas, positioned between the residing and eating rooms.
From right here, a hallway, glazed on one aspect to border the bonsai reflection pool, heads away from the general public areas in the direction of the house’s three bedrooms.
On the courtyard and entryway, the roofline is flat, so the gabled types of the adjoining private and non-private packages might have clerestory home windows.
In the lounge, the place there’s an open-concept kitchen, the excessive gabled ceiling with uncovered board-form concrete slopes down towards the floor-to-ceiling opening that connects the lounge to the terraces. Curved Pierre Paulin couches have been positioned round customized, low-lying espresso tables.
On the far aspect of the room, one other wall has floor-to-ceiling glass to additional the floating sensation of the interiors.
The sunshine inexperienced accents on the outside metal girders have been continued on the within, which additionally options hardwood flooring with pure finishes.
The inexperienced additionally seems on an expansive shading display screen that may be pulled throughout the entire of the rear facade to shade the interiors and supply safety from the weather.
For the terraces, awnings with metal stilts present a transition from the indoors to the outside. Picket decks with a sequence of swimming pools, backyard containers and recessed seating areas step down with the slope.
“Casa Aire turns into a part of the shopper’s architectural assortment,” stated the studio.
“Its use will depend on the place the place he’s and though it was deliberate as a secondary home, it has the tools to change into a everlasting residence if desired.”
The home was designed for Jose Balvin, recognized by the moniker J Balvin, who’s internationally recognised for his contributions to the Reggaeton music style.
Different tasks in Colombia embody a brick trip dwelling within the jungle by Plan:b Arquitectos and a wood dwelling raised above a fragile ecosystem by ZITA.
The pictures is by Anna Dave until in any other case famous.
Challenge credit:
Structure and inside design: Cinco Sólidos
Consumer: Jose Balvin
Normal contractor: Dream Home
