CUMBRES
The project engages with the forest through views of different scales and heights, connecting the ground, tree canopy, and sky. Casa Cumbres is a sustainable response, working with what already exists on the site. The container is not discarded as undervalued architecture but embraced and integrated into an attractive form that blends with the landscape.
CUMBRES comes from a very specific commission: to recycle a 6-meter-long container located in the Las Cumbres forest. The initial question was: How can architecture be made with a container?
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A project realized with HMOZ:
Team: Paco Hernández, Alejandro Varela
Nicolas Bosco
Photos: Marcos Giuponi
The container was chosen as the starting point and structural core. Its interior houses the sanitary installations, which required less height and could be arranged in an extremely compact manner. From the container’s existing openings, a series of habitable spaces were expanded and extended as wooden and polycarbonate “bubbles,” with their shapes and heights defined according to programmatic needs and desired relationships with the surrounding landscape.Through openings we generate something, architecture and not containers.