Completed in 2014, it is located in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
Casa Chinkara by SOLISCOLOMER:
“Located in a privileged area surrounded by forests but still
close to Guatemala city, the Casa Chinkara presents itself as a dual
residence exploring the contrast between the natural and the man made;
between the primitive and the contemporary.
The house was imagined as a rock embedded in the landscape, an
ethereal element that follows the order of the contour lines of the
terrain. Inside it houses an art gallery, an intimate space for
contemplation, a container of experiences materialized in the various
works of art that conform it. This rocky volume has been sculpted in
such a way that it allows for light to come in through a skylight and
for the different spaces in the inside to flow right out into the
natural landscape.
This stone volume acts as the heart of the building, different
rooms adhere, penetrate or are superimposed around it each one contained
inside different white volumes wrapped in ACM, an artificial material,
that as it counterpoised to the rock symbolizes the intervention of man
in the natural landscape of the project. As a result, the residence
reads as a harmonious composition between terrain, rock and man.
Even though the house could be read as a massive composition of
volumes, from the inside each one of the room maintains a residential
scale, intimate and human. The warmth of the wooden floors, the
unpolished stone, the height of the spaces and the ornamentation of
these reinforces the idea of a good life, constantly inviting the
residents to enjoy a sense of contemplation and intimacy.
The experience of the house towards the landscape creates a
contrast to this introverted notion of the project. Except for the art
gallery each one of the rooms in the house is contained in a defined
volume that opens towards the exterior integrating the richness of the
natural life with the experiences contained inside the house. Huge glass
windows with bright red frames are embedded into the volumes that make
up the building denoting the intention of framing the landscape from the
inside.
From the outside the house reads as a group of window displays
that expose the interior spaces that compose it along with the day to
day experiences of it’s inhabitants; from the inside all of the
activities of the residents are adorned by an exterior natural
background conformed by different species of trees, animals and sounds.
In conclusion Casa Chinkara is more than a residence, it is an
intermediary between the natural and the artificial; between the
intimate and the external; between the massive and impressive and the
residential and familiar.”
Photos by: Marko Bradich
Source : homedsgn.com
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