Modern House Architecture Design – Mountain Refuge Los Canteros by dRN

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Posted : Saturday - February 26th, 2011

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This is Modern House Architecture Design – Mountain Refuge Los Canteros by dRN. This house was designed with monolithic volume of stone that partially fills the void left by the existing containment walls.  These conditions were something that the old mountain chalets, built in the town of Farellones during the 40′s and 60′s, took into account through small interior spaces and thick stonewalls with very small openings in their facades. Window openings are minimal and were placed so as to illuminate specific acts, or to frame certain parts of the surrounding landscape, keeping away the sight of the neighbours. This simple stone cube is broken up by other elements that overhang from its perimeter, modifying the basic figure and giving it an orientation towards specific external features. A horizontal window looking out to the main view across the valley below appears as another volume, which also serves a bench. A second transparent volume on top, serves as an access area that acts as a lamp during the night.

Finally, a light steel walkway links the road with the upper level of the refuge. The window of good weather for building at these altitudes is very narrow (6 months), so a rapid construction plan was required. We decided to build with a prefabricated steel frame structure that would reduce assembly time. This metal cage was then covered with different layers of insulation responding to specific needs; much like the clothes of a mountain climber. First, an interior plywood cladding for a warmer atmosphere in the inside, then a double thermal insulation within the steel structure, next a waterproof membrane, and finally an exterior cladding of black slate stone. This external finish resists well the harsh weather of extreme low temperatures, snow and rain. It also establishes a material link with the old stone refuges nearby. Unlike the nearby existing structures, whose construction is now too expensive, here the stone doesn’t take a structural role.

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