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© Jose Orrego Herrera Architect . Pubblicata il 06 Febbraio 2008.

This house is located in a piece of land in the first row in front of the ocean in the beach club Las Gaviotas, to the south of Lima.

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The main idea was to create a balcony-house that would have the best view of the ocean from the privileged situation where the house is situated.

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Being established adjacent to the boardwalk, the proposal was to elevate the entire house in a way that would allow enjoying an elevated view from the beach and the ocean.

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This elevated terrace was framed in a way that would create the sensation of a great virtual window that would frame the beach landscape in different hours.

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The terrace integrates with the living room and the dining room through a tempered glass screen that could be completely refuted to one of the sides, having all this area can convert in just a big open semi-exterior space.

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The pool is proposed as an object that has been placed in the terrace as another object of the furnishing.

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The interior organizes through all the long of a central curve corridor that divides spaces to both sides. In the adjacent zone to the dining room, the kitchen is located, and to the back are the bedrooms in a lower level.

In one of the sides of the house, a garage was placed that acts as an interior yard where it has been developed a semibasement, laundry areas and service room.

Being a land in between 2 other lands, the illumination and ventilation was solved in the rooms with high windows that allowed the entrance of zenith light.

The entire house has been designed as a white box including the tiles from the floor to give the sensation of a much bigger luminosity.

The project included an illumination proposal that allows displaying the house in the night. This way the volumetric design and the architectural details stand out.