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Lira House — luxury home

The house is organized around three events: Firstly, a patio over street level, secondly, a promenade composed of ramps and staircases that lead from the parking to the roof garden and thirdly, a perimeter wall that defines the domesticated territory of the house.

Regarding the expression of the house, it offers a silent facade to the street, which is no more than the simple echo of the wall that confines the small patio of the sleeping rooms. This elongated patio works as a filter towards the noisy movement of cars that pass tangent to the site.

Its interior space is characterized by the colonization of elements such as: the oblique pillars which endure the horizontal force of possible earthquakes, the prefabricated skylights which introduce light to the deepest part of the house and the ramps. Those elements altogether create boundaries and tensions within the space.

Architect : Sebastian Irarrazaval
Client : Martin Irarrazaval
Location : Santiago, Chile
Site Area : 700 sqm
Building Area : 200sqm
Construction start : 2005
Completion : 2006
Materials : Concrete, Timber & Glass
Photos : Carlos Eguiguren

Lira House, designed by Sebastian Irarrazaval Architect [via] modern house design.
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"we are entering an age of urban infrastructure capable of sensing and responding to the events and activities transpiring around them”

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Architecture Building of Red Diamond Dance Theater by Chiasmus Partners

The Red Diamond was until recently used as an old factory complex in the historic DongCheng district of Beijing, CHINA. Chiasmus Partners was assigned the building transformation of this old factory into a dance center with a performance hall, a practice hall and a saloon which would host various events and activities. Chiasmus Partners approached the building transformation by adding an exterior shell to the already existing building. They tried to emphasize the temperament and the character of the new program of the building. They enclosed the old factory by covering it in an evenly –spaced-out red steel tubing shell.
The red steel tubes create a distorted boundary between the interior and the exterior. The red steel shell has a triangulated approach of design where vectors are pulled away from two focal points to create large triangles. This design allows for the creation of shaded areas on the façade and therefore adds an interesting touch of design to the building exterior. A part of the façade has been left untouched and that is no other than the entrance where the old white vintage door as it is meant to portray the history of the building’s transformation. The concept by Chiasmus Partners was to create the courtyard an outdoor “theater” — a public space that would revitalize the complex, the hutong and its neighborhood.
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