Guthrie House / Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido
Architects: Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido
Project Date: 2005
End Date: 2007
Location: Chicureo, Santiago, Chile
Land Area: 840 m2
Built Area: 140 m2
Materiality: Concrete
Photos: Guy Wenborne
The order makes it a property to design a house capable of repeatable sited on a hillside with a slope averaging 25%. The offer should be kept within an acceptable range for a standard user, a family that does not involve an emerging area of more than 140 m2.
Moreover, it was emphasized in this order, on the impact that such housing should be within the pool of projects to raise that bid. Were asked specifically to make a home for sale, therefore, like mass and whose "front" was quickly absorbed by the target audience.
But the place where we have to intervene arises as a natural lookout point toward the valley Chicureo, a suburban area to the city of Santiago with a growing real estate development of a fairly mediocre quality, where the "condominium" of houses repeatable ends by seizing large areas. New neighborhoods with architectural imports of all kinds, where "style" seems to be the most valued of the offer.
Our proposal, by contrast, was a counterproposal to fachadismo, a complete disconnection from the real concept of the "beautiful house" whose image could adorn a web page giving an account of a lifestyle. Our proposal was a house without a facade, a construction that was developed from street level down to rescue one initial condition "lookout" natural valley on the site posed. Guthrie's house, therefore, is not only a response to the housing problem in a medium slope, but a criticism of the real estate system whose ultimate goal is to sell houses in "good taste" to "good price" by "Good architects. In other words, selling fashion.
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