在Manquehue山脚下，在Lo Barnechea社区，Casa Esmeralda坐落在这里。它是在圣地亚哥的一个特权区域内建造的家庭定居点的一部分。这个项目是为建筑师的母亲设计的，名字叫Esmeralda，因为她的女儿克拉拉因此定义了她祖母的眼睛。
At the foot of the Manquehue hill, in the Lo Barnechea commune, Casa Esmeralda is located. It is part of a family settlement built within a privileged sector of Santiago. The project, for the architect’s mother, bears the name Esmeralda because her daughter Clara thus defines her grandmother’s eyes.
灵感来自于传统的罗马房屋与中央内凹，该建筑被设想为一个规则的正方形平面，有一个中央空隙，可以围绕它进行循环，反过来，它满足了给予自然光和被动通风的条件。规整的平面图在屋顶上被旋转，以纳入现代的外观，造成不对称的体积感，由内部走廊的窗户的屋檐和第五个窗户产生，框住了Manquehue山的自然环境。盖子的几何学起源于对祖母绿晶体形成过程的研究，该晶体在柏拉图多面体系统中生长，直到达到二十面体。这种体积感产生了方形平面的扭曲，主要表现在旋转的中央天井，它被转化为对古典罗马天井的当代重新诠释。
Inspired by the traditional Roman house with the central impluvium, the construction is conceived as a regular square plan, with a central void around which to circulate and which, in turn, fulfills the condition of granting natural light and passive ventilation to the house. The regular floor plan is rotated on the roof to incorporate the contemporary look, causing an asymmetric volumetry generated by the eaves of the windows of the interior corridor and a fifth window that frames the natural environment of the Manquehue hill. The genesis of the geometry of the cover arises from the study of the formation process of the emerald crystal that grows in a system of platonic polyhedrons until it reaches the icosahedron. This volumetry generates the twist of the square plan, expressed mainly in the rotated central patio that is transformed into a contemporary reinterpretation of the classic Roman patio.
位于山脚下，坡度约为30度，该体量被悬挂在一个混凝土柱子上，实现了双重功能。一方面，整个土地的表面变成了一个花园，产生了一系列的中间区域，使你能够欣赏到该地的非凡景色，有盖的露台和一个烧烤区。而另一方面，它允许居民几乎全年都居住在房屋外部，享受温和的地中海气候，这是智利中部地区的特点。
Located at the foot of the hill, with a slope of approximately 30 degrees, the volume is suspended on a forest of concrete pillars that fulfills a double function. On the one hand, the entire surface of the land becomes a garden, generating a series of intermediate areas that allow you to enjoy the extraordinary view of the site, covered terraces, and a barbecue area. And on the other hand, it allows the inhabitants to inhabit the exterior of the house for almost the whole year, enjoying a mild Mediterranean climate, characteristic of the central area of Chile.
该建筑是一个木制机身，通过代表 “森林 “形象的倾斜的混凝土支柱从地面升起，使景观从房子下面穿过，创造了一个有盖的户外空间，从那里可以看到山的方向。这个空间被设想为一个向景观开放的亭子，通过室内天井的周边和房屋关闭的立面前的循环，沿着窗户但不接触窗户，产生了一个贯穿不同房间的连续性的双重循环。通过这种方式，一个民主的空间被创造出来，没有限制居住的等级制度。
The building is a wooden fuselage that rises from the ground through inclined concrete pillars that represent the image of a “forest”, allowing the landscape to pass under the house, creating a covered outdoor space from which to look towards the mountain. A space conceived as a pavilion that opens onto the landscape, with a double circulation through the perimeters marked by the interior patio and the circulation in front of the closing façade of the house that passes along the windows but without touching them, generating a continuity through the different rooms. In this way, a democratic space is created, without hierarchies that restrict the inhabitation.
Architects: Cazú Zegers Arquitectura
Area : 528 m²
Year : 2015
Photographs :Juan Purcell, Cristóbal Palma
Manufacturers : Nuprotec
Lead Architect : Cazú Zegers
Collaborators : Gabriel Rudolphy, Ian Hsu, Yolanda Muñoz, Francisco García Huidobro
City : Santiago de Chile
Country : Chile