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FAMILARITY HOME AND THE BEAUTY OF NATURE
Casa Chinkara
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Located in a privileged area surrounded by forests but still close to
Guatemala city , the Casa Chinkara presents itself as a dual residence
exploring the contrast between the natural and the man made; between the
primitive and the contemporary.
The house was imagined as a rock embedded in the landscape, an ethereal
element that follows the order of the contour lines of the terrain. Inside it
houses an art gallery, an intimate space for contemplation, a container of
experiences materialized in the various works of art that conform it. This
rocky volume has been sculpted in such a way that it allows for light to
come in through a skylight and for the different spaces in the inside to flow
right out into the natural landscape.
T his stone volume acts as the heart of the building, different rooms adhere,
penetrate or are superimposed around it each one contained inside different
white volumes wrapped in ACM, an artificial material, that as it
counterpoised to the rock symbolizes the intervention of man in the natural
landscape of the project. As a result, the residence reads as a harmonious
composition between terrain, rock and man.
Even though the house could be read as a massive composition of volumes,
from the inside each one of the room maintains a residential scale, intimate
and human. The warmth of the wooden floors, the unpolished stone, the
height of the spaces and the ornamentation of these.   Reinforces the idea of
a good life, constantly inviting the residents to enjoy a sense of
contemplation and intimacy.  
The experience of the house towards the landscape creates a contrast to
this introverted notion of the project.