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Nida house

Pezo von Ellrichshausen designed a private residence in Navidad, Chile, featuring a concrete concentric and non-directional structure formed by four rigid frames.

The building is a monolithic piece that supports an entirely confined framework within a compact figure, producing a flat landscape from within, dense and almost mechanically stratified.

A concentric and non-directional structure formed by four rigid frames, with eight continuous columns that allow for open corners in every floor and other eight that step up regularly in the two elevated levels. This is a balanced sequence in which every floor is symmetrically protected by the following one. The foot of each exterior column is slightly misaligned from the perpendicular beams, thus their heads seem to outline decorative triglyphs.

Throughout an eccentric spiral staircase there is a transition from the smallest and shaded storey, compartmented in quadrants with an access in the central crossing point, to another storey diagonally divided by a block of furniture and, in the highest level, to an open and diaphanous plan, although filled with corners, where an informal aerial life can unfold.

In between the darkened reinforced concrete grid there is only native wood for platforms, furniture and large glass panels of fixed or sliding window frames.

Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Nida house, Navidad, Chile, 2015

Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Nida house, Navidad, Chile, 2015

Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Nida house, site plan

Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Nida house, plans

Pezo von Ellrichshausen, Nida house, sections

Nida house, Navidad, Chile
Program: single-family house
Architects: Mauricio Pezo & Sofía von Ellrichshausen
Collaborators: Diego Perez, Valentina Chandia, Giacomo Pelizzari
Structure: Luis Mendieta
Area: Ricardo Ballesta
Area: 232 sqm
Completion: 2015

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Nida house

Pezo von Ellrichshausen designed a private residence in Navidad, Chile, featuring a concrete concentric and non-directional structure formed by four rigid frames.

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