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Once Upon a Time
 
Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2016
Nominated Works 





Built among the woods, this house's walls dodge the existing trees through levitation and zig zag. With an eclectic coexistence between the Central American tropics and a mystic tree house blended throughout the woods, this twisting spaces wriggle on the foothills of the San Salvador volcano.

Some South American ancient cultures thought of serpents as the crawlers beneath volcanoes, the trembling force underneath the earthquakes. This house stands as a tribute to this legend.

The house is located and oriented in the lot in order to make use of the north /south cross winds, to reduce eastern and western exposure and to take “shelter” beneath the shade of trees adjacent to the perimeter. The Irregular geometry of the plan responds to the location of preexisting trees on the site, the desire to maximize the perimeter of the house to blurring the boundary to the surrounding nature, and the creation of view lines between the spaces on a very transparent first level.


Junior Architect from Concept Design till Building Phase
Responsible for Architecture and Interior Design

© Cincopatasalgato
     Team: José Roberto Paredes, Andrea Hasbún, David Floristán
© Photography: Jason Bax