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The client came with a clear conviction: this home had to work as hard as they do. A family of active, creative, deeply private people, they wanted every room to have a reason — a bouldering wall for the children, a maker's studio for craft and work, a library for solitude, and living spaces generous enough to host without feeling like performance. The central problem was not square footage, they have enough of that, but coherence: how do you design a home with this many specific functions and still have it feel like one house, not a collection of rooms.

"Discipline on the outside. Generosity within."

A beach-adjacent vacation home designed to operate as a premium short-term rental — a residence built to the standard of a private villa, capable of delivering that experience to guests without the owners present. Open, luminous, and oriented toward leisure.

"Hospitality as architecture — a home designed not just to be lived in, but to be remembered."

The client required an executive family residence capable of accommodating a household at scale — seven bedrooms across five split levels, designed to resolve a site that drops nearly ten meters from road level to its lowest point. The challenge was not simply to build on difficult terrain, but to make that terrain the defining architectural feature: a cascading section that orients every principal living space toward the unobstructed view of Pasonanca Park. What could have been a liability became the organizing logic of the entire house.

A loft-style residence within an existing family compound, designed for both daily life and deliberate entertaining. A sunken living area anchors the ground floor; the aesthetic direction — Japandi industrial — pairs raw concrete, warm timber, and steel.

Client feedback: "I really liked the journey from planning to construction since I'm able to really decide the details and customize it based on my preferences... Overall my experience is very good and I'm really satisfied with the house." — Mr. Lorente

The site presented a five-meter drop across its length. The solution was a section that accepts the slope: levels are staggered to follow the terrain, keeping the entry sequence at grade while the rear of the house steps down naturally into the landscape. Drawing from Japanese residential principles — deep overhanging eaves, timber detailing, restrained materiality.

"A house that follows the land rather than correcting it — restraint on the outside, warmth within."

The house had forty years of accumulated decisions — some of them architectural, most of them not. The brief was to find what was worth keeping, strip what wasn't, and rebuild around a family that had outgrown both the layout and the logic of the original. The result reads as entirely new while sitting on the same footprint it always occupied.