In 2007, architect Juan Carlos Doblado has designed a modern house located on the seafront, overlooking the islands of Asia (Peru). The main objective for the project development was to perform the connection between people and the nature, betwee the sea and the desert. The desert generates the need to create a private area in the vastness of its territory; the ocean invites to open their horizons.
The house design uses the subtractive logic. The consignment was seized with the maximum constructible area through a rigorous geometric solid volume, which was then drilled generating a sunken courtyard. The roof of the terrace is overhang with the same proportion of the gap in the courtyard.
The overall design established a vertical relationship between the house and the sky, as well as horizontal relationship with the sea. This is achieved at a dialectical relationship between architectural enclosure and openness, transparency and opacity, privacy and exterior.
Location: Playa La Isla, Asia, Cañete, Peru
Structural Engineer: Pedro Moscoso
Electrical Engineer: Abelardo Grados
Sanitary Engineer: Gonzalo Herrera
Site area: 209 sqm
Constructed Area: 258 sqm
Via. Photography by Elsa Ramirez.
So simple, its all down to the great proportions. I’ve tried to get schemes like this thought the planning process here in the UK, but the Planning Departments are terrified of minimalism / modernism.