A Surfer Couple Build an All-Black Off-Grid Cabin on a Seaside Bluff in Chile

Timber-clad interiors make it cozy while wall-length windows capture sweeping vistas of the Pacific.

"We like the feeling of floating in the air," Constanza Ríos says of the home she built with her husband, Pierangelo Caimi. Peering out at sky and ocean through wall-height windows that wrap the living area of their cabin, which rests on a cliff on the Chilean coast, you can’t help but feel weightless. It can be jarring for some. "People with vertigo sometimes come to our house and say they can’t get near the windows," says Pier, laughing. "They feel like they’re going to fall into the ocean."

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Mark Johanson
Mark Johanson is an American journalist based in Santiago, Chile.

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