Designed by Estudio Rafael Freyre, this contemporary brick residence is situated in Lima, Peru.

Description by Estudio Rafael Freyre
The house is located in Azpitia valley, in the coast of Lima, Peru. Approximately 90 Km (56 Mi) south of the city of Lima and 20 km (12 mi) away from the seashore.
A place known by the local vineyards and its pre-Columbian ruins; a kind of natural oasis for people escaping from the big metropolis of Lima.
The landscape is characterized by the dryness of the desert that contrasts with green areas along the course of the river Mala from the mountains towards the Pacific Ocean. A valley consisting of small mountains and picks rising up from the desert on both sides of the river, changing colors from beige to light brown, to reddish, anthracite and soft grey. The house sits on a slope, at the foot of the mountain with a view to the path of the river Mala towards the sea, facing the vineyards. The project was intended to integrate the house with such dry landscape and to develop a geometry and a palette of textures and colors according to this environment.
Furthermore, the project should be seen as a new layer on the landscape above the old existing ones: the pre-Columbian sites and textiles and ceramics remains. An image of different time layers all together.
For such purpose we decided to use different materials layers, specially working with local handcrafted materials and techniques, merged with other industrial ones. ...