Max Núñez Arquitectos Designs Elevated Steel House in Chilean Andes
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Kate Mazade
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
Chilean architecture studio Max Núñez Arquitectos has designed Casa en los Arboles (House in the Trees), a prefabricated steel house elevated on columns in the Sierra Nevada mountains of southern Chile. The 110-square meter structure, completed in 2023 near Conguillío National Park, is described as a "site-specific piece of technology" and compared to a "lunar lander" due to its elevated design on a sloping terrain surrounded by araucarias, coihues, raulíes and oak forests near active volcanoes.
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comparing it to a "lunar lander"
Casa en los Arboles (House in the Trees) was completed in 2023 on the edge of Conguillío National Park in the Andes
the 110-square metre (1,185-square foot) house is located in a popular spot for backcountry skiing through the araucarias, coihues, raulíes and oak forests
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