The Chilean architecture
studio was commissioned to create a home that made the most of its
location in Punta de Lobos on the South Pacific Coast. Casa
Casi Cubo – or the Almost Cube House – is named after its irregular shape,
described the architects as an "abstract deformation of a parallelepiped
volume". A standard cuboid has been pushed and
distorted to create an irregular single-story building with an angled roof that
rises and falls like waves. The ceiling
heights in the main areas of the house were maximized by creating peaks in the
pitched roof around the kitchen diner at one side, and the bedrooms at the
other.
