Casa Las Vizcachas is an amazing beach house located in Aguadulce, Chile, designed in 2021 by Juan Pablo Ureta.

Description
This project seeks to question certain notions about living and how we relate to the environment. Its design frames a segment of the landscape to transform it into an exterior refuge, placing special emphasis on the structural elements that define the limits between what is built and what is inherited by nature.
The first approach to the site, located in a private condo in the central north coast of Chile, was mediated by abundant wild vegetation and by a series of rock clusters that touched tangentially, generating among them voids of different size and shapes. This image was the inspiration for a design that transformed those stones into habitable volumes and the voids in the different patios that are part of the project. Casa Las Vizcachas is the second home of an adult man who hopes that in the future it will become his permanent residence; this determined a specific program segmented into 3 blocks. The largest one houses the master bedroom with private bathroom, as well as the integrated living room, dining room and kitchen; the second element is intended for the bedroom of the owner’s daughter a guest room and a large bathroom. Both element touch tangentially, but it is only possible to transit from one to the other through the terraces. Later, a slightly turned third volume was built to accommodate a small gym.
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