Pendiente House

The Pendiente house , owes its name to the dual condition of assuming the slope on a slope of the foothills of Santiago and to a selfacquired debt like its authors and inhabitants, which confronts us with revisionism of our own way of living and of our experiences of inhabit and project. Opposing the ease of materializing the program in a horizontal volume, which opposes the slope, the built volume is parallel to it, challenging the relationships of the spaces.
Also questioning the way of inhabiting, the project is developed in two superimposed staggered spaces/containers. The lower one resting on the ground, open to the landscape around its entire perimeter and surrounded by a glass perimeter, contains the social spaces in a large continuous nave with an entrance hall, living room and dining room/kitchen. The upper one, more introverted,
contains the intimate spaces for the desk, bedrooms and family room.
Both spaces/containers break and transform the paradigm of urban housing in its spatial continuity, by not considering divisions between the enclosures or uses. The lower volume proposes a continuous space with three steps of six steps each, which become the transition thresholds between the social areas. The upper volume also replicates the idea of a continuous space, but with a more intimate character, with five steps of only three steps between the different spaces. I have intervened with furniture incorporated into the architecture, which does not reach the upper inclined ceiling, and which achieves configure intimate and private spaces within the
ship.