At the bottom of the Andes Mountains is an incredibly
beautiful shop house immersed in the middle of a grove of elms, located on the
outskirts of the city of Santiago, Chile. Designed by Parra + Edwards Architects, Apollo 11 was given its name
because it is designed like a ship that landed in a forest without touching it
at any time and will undertake its departure, leaving the forest intact.
“Apollo 11″ also for the laboratory conditions: This house functions as
architecture workshop,recording studio and rehearsal room acoustic and
electric music. It is a capsule that supports in full the life of his crew, a
family of architects and musicians.
The program has been organized into two levels from a
rectangular 6 x 9 meters in 6 meters high. The rectangle,
for the Japanese is the only element that does not distort the nature, is a
clean element that tends to disappear. The simplicity of the box also
helps the idea of occupying the forest floor minimum while maximizing the
heat inside the ship as it landed in a place that is very cold
in winter. With two levels of heating is easy and is oriented in their bedrooms
to the north with large windows that take the stored heat energy and heat
through the glass. In summer the foliage of the elms control acts as
natural sunlight.
The box is a simple grid structure coated metal plates on
their skin for plywood of 18 mm. glass plates and allowing full and
empty that resemble the dark and light fragments produced in the
foliage of trees. The skeleton of this structure is always visible, with the
metal profiles metaphor from the trunks and branches of this new forest and
wood planes of the leaves of the tree. That’s why their facades are indefinite
and change in different seasons of the year through mobile web pages are the
thermal checked in and out depending on what is happening in the
forest itself. Via
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