House in Azpitia

House in Azpitia was outlined by Lima-based designer Rafael Freyre for a couple in their 50s, who needed a mid year home where they could enthrall loved ones and feel closer to nature. It is in a valley close to the town of Azpitia, 90 kilometers south of Lima, between a hilly abandon and a green, low-lying region of vineyards.

"You could say the proprietors were searching for a post-urban ordeal," Freyre told Dezeen. "The region is known for its vineyards and pre-Columbian ruins, and has turned into a sort of normal desert spring for individuals getting away from the huge city of Lima."

Freyre picked neighborhood and common materials to make the house feel more joined with its setting, including blocks from an adjacent oven for the cladding, and stone from the encompassing mountains for the garden's holding dividers.

"The house is outlined like another layer on the scene," said Freyre. "The unpredictable composition and shades of the blocks identify with the dry surroundings, and the stones make a verifiable association between the house and the mountains."

A brise soleil cantilevers five meters from the back divider to make a broad shaded porch, which Freyre imagined as a transitional space between the home's inside and outside.

"I see rooftops and dividers as material components, similar to garments for the body," he said. "The expectation with the shaded porch was to make an ordeal where you gradually lose these garments, and submerge yourself in nature."

Provincial materials and sun-shades are regular in desert construction modeling. Different houses highlighted on Dezeen that utilization these incorporate an Utah home secured in pre-rusted steel to coordinate the shades of its scene, and an Australian home with a vast overhanging rooftop to give shade in summer and trap heat in winter.

House in Azpitia has an inner floor region of 240 square meters, and is organized crosswise over three levels. The cellar houses a sauna, the ground floor has a kitchen, eating range and a twofold tallness lounge room, in addition to a room and en-suite washroom, and the first floor has two more rooms with ensuites, in addition to an optional living space by the stair arrival for sitting in front of the television.

The primary living space is 6.8 meters tall and elements substantial windows at the top that wrap around the corners. These are adjusted to the sun's way to get morning light from the east and evening light from the west.



"The inside is planned as a space where the proprietors can encounter the scene – to bring close what is far," said Freyre. "The thought was to make a house with a permeable skin, highlighting openings that acquire the glow, light, and breezes."


Recovered timber was utilized for the kitchen cupboards and racks, and pumaquiro – a hardwood that develops in the district – was utilized for the window outlines and brise soleil, decided for its toughness.

Porcelain was decided for the ground surface and reaches out to the patio to give a smooth move between the rough garden finishing and the home's inside.

The home's structure was fabricated with cement and blocks, and took one and a half years to finish.