La Cima HouseRealized

Located on moderately sloping terrain and with a cold climate, this house is located in the highest part of a subdivision that dominates the landscape of Sopo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia. This house proposes a volumetric game that explores possibilities beyond the traditional compact and closed box, conceiving itself as a light box open to the landscape. The house, with two levels and isolated typology, is crowned on "the top" of a micro-plateau, achieving the best view and orientation regarding the surrounding environment. The lot, with a regular shape and an exuberant microclimate, allows the creation of an architecture open to the landscape, whose proposal highlights the arrangement of clear and homogeneous volumes, slightly attached to the ground. The implantation strategy consisted of generating a horizontal and elongated volume on the front garden, a rectangular prism that follows the morphology of the land. The C-shaped house generates a geometric frame around the property, where the staggering and play of levels takes on an argument thanks to a large central patio, which allows the social and private rooms to be spatially distributed and organized. This type of patio open to one side of the property generates a correct visual articulation towards the exterior landscape from the interior. The shape and type of volume proposed reinforces the emptiness of the central patio, which is used to generate terraces, stairways and social areas for integration of both the social area and the bedroom hall. On the first floor we find several levels. The implementation of bioclimatic design strategies and guidelines in passive terms, allows optimizing the environmental conditions and solar orientation to achieve adequate comfort in correlation with the implantation and volumetric proposal.