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Modern Stone House With A Courtyard In The Center
This unique modern home is built of stone and features a courtyard in its center
Casa Tapihue by Matías Zegers Arquitectos is a house in a vineyard built from white stone around a courtyard with a firepit in Casablanca, Chile. The residence is named for the valley of Tapihue between two mountains in Chile’s wine-growing region.
Matias Zegers Arquitectos designed the family home to give the resident plentiful ways of enjoying the natural landscape while being protected from the area’s fierce breezes. Four volumes are arranged around a square central courtyard paved in concentric rings. A dish-shaped metal fire pit sits at the center. The whole program is laid out around this patio that will provide a serene atmosphere through a hand-reach landscape full of aromas and protected from the permanent winds of Casablanca. Matias Zegers Arquitectos raised the house almost a meter above ground level on a concrete plinth to el