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Indoor-Outdoor Living for House by Prado in Chile

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Swett House is a private home designed by Prado Arquitectos in Chiguayante.

The site is at the bottom of a narrow valley surrounded by hills, and gets only short periods of sun exposure.

So the conceptual idea of the project was to gain height to maximise the sun exposure into the home.

A second story allows the brief exposure to the sun to warm the home for the maximum possible hours.

The idea was to support the second story on a series of steel columns inside a glass enclosure.

The horizontal fenestration, with continuous transparent planes is framed by the steel plates.

This contains the social areas; living room, dining room, barbecue and kitchen on the first level, maintaining a close relationship between the exterior and interior space.

Outdoor living prevails on the ground under the house.

The indoor-outdoor flow is accentuated by interior treatments like the ceiling of this outdoor room panelled in wooden beams.

The steel structure supports the second floor with minimal materiality (just steel and glass) containing the upper level housing the private living room and bedrooms.