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3×3 Retreat in La Unión City

post updated 27 September 2024

Architects: Estudio Diagonal Architects

Location: Puerto Varas, Los Lagos, southern Chile

3x3 Retreat, La Unión City, South Chile

Photos by Nico Saieh

22 Mar 2023

3×3 Retreat, Chile

The tension between radical geometry and forest organic shapes shows the first architectural picture when you see the 3×3 Retreat. Highlights house and landscape enhancing natural beauty.

3x3 Retreat South Chile

Request: comfortable rest place providing disconnection with work. For everyday use, but not intensive. Try to not disturb the natural surroundings conversely enhancing them.

The place: it rises in a rainforest near La Unión city, south of Chile. After a long deciding walk it was selected the place near a risk on the short of Radimadi river, privileging the view, sunlight, and stream noises. This little, free of trees, the place was a perfect choice.

3x3 Retreat La Unión City South Chile

Program: Show on three acts. Start on the terrace with the same footprint as the refuge. It gives the sense of the space between the outside and inside. Is the place where people meet and have a barbecue.

The journey continues on the first floor or the “day floor” which serves as the kitchen, dining room, and living room. Here people spend the rainy winter days observing across the double-height front window while taking a coffee around the woodstove.

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Finally, the second floor or “the private floor” serves as a sleeping room and bathroom. The access is just a ladder to save footprint space and give more privacy.

Dimensions: 3 by 3 meters on the floor. 2.4 meters height on both floors and 4.8 meters in the double-height space for verticals space sensation. The total is 15 square meters inside and 9 square meters outside.

Materials: It uses traditional construction materials, easy to find on a budget. Standard pre dimensions pine wood. The construction techniques are common in local labor, but the structure is showing intentionally to appreciate the way it sustains.

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3×3 Retreat in La Unión City, South Chile – Building Information

Architecture: Estudio Diagonal Architects – https://www.estudiodiagonalchile.com/

Project size: 15 m2
Project Budget: USD 15,000.00
Completion date: 2020
Building levels: 2

3x3 Retreat South Chile

Photographs: Nico Saieh

3×3 Retreat, La Unión City, South Chile images / information received 220323 from Estudio Diagonal Architects

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