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- Architects: Studio Selva
- Location: Chile
- Area: 50.0 m2
- Project Year: 2016
- Photographs: Nico Saieh
- Build And Design: Studio Selva
- Design: 2014-2016
- Client: private
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From the architect. Casa Trumán is a private villa in the central coastal region of Chile, designed and built by Amsterdam-based office Studio Selva with mostly locally sourced materials.
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Materials
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Floor Plan
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The villa is in fact a tailor-made surfer’s holiday home, with a layout and materialisation vaguely referring to chilean farmhouses. The small floorpan of 50 m2 has been laid out in six modules: four bedrooms, one bathroom and one kitchen module. Each bedroom has an independent access to a generous roofed terrace, conceived as a shared common space; as a living room with a magnificent view of the sea. The post-and-beam wooden construction with eucalyptus screens and straw bale infill walls and clay-plaster creates an excellent indoor climate in this humid region.
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