Casa Cacho

The design of this house posed a particular challenge: distributing a client request, a large program on the ground floor of a triangular lot that despite its extensive front did not cover a large rear space. To optimize the garden, it was decided to implant the ground floor in two remote bars: one against the front with the common areas and services such as the dining room, gallery, kitchen, grill, machine room, and laundry room and the other, located against the side retreat for the rest area, where the master bedroom with bathroom suite and the dressing room was located. A third rests on these bars, which, with its windows covered with parasols, gives the whole a compact appearance. In this third bar, two guest rooms are located at the ends, and in the space generated by the intersection of the three bars, the imposing double-height living room is generated, the heart of the project. This space has the particularity of being related to the surrounding vegetation on its four sides, thanks to the gardens in front, the quiet part of the building, an internal patio, and a flowerbed generated under the stairs on its sides. At the back of the house, the bar on the upper floor moves over the one on the ground floor, thus revealing a gallery with a four-meter cantilever that does not step on the garden.
For the materiality of the entire project, travertine was chosen, which is used both for the floors throughout the house and for the bathroom coverings. For the exterior, we use plaster with marble and stones of the same material. These materials provide a timeless aesthetic and are low maintenance and will age in line with the project.
As for the color palette, we opted for a raw tone used on the walls, ceilings, and kitchen furniture, maintaining a monochrome that allows the vegetation and natural wood details to stand out, which adds warmth to the room. The project, such as the fingernail of the oak kitchen furniture.
Landscaping plays a fundamental role in the design, creating islands of vegetation in each of the cuts generated by the movements of the architecture. In addition, planters with vegetation are placed on all the ceilings, which hang over the plays of shadows, thus revealing diagonal gaps between the beams and within each bar.
With this careful selection of materials, spatial distribution, and attention to landscaping, the project combines functionality, warm spatiality, and a strong connection with the natural environment.