Casa MH
Architectural design is, to a certain extent, a pictorial exercise: chiaroscuro, volume, texture and light.
The avant-gardes were paradigmatic to the extent that they gave design the capacity to subvert: it is not for nothing that the house is a black cube located in the Colombian tropics.
Located in the municipality of El Retiro, in the department of Antioquia, the MH house is composed of a first public level, stony and solid, which supports, in turn, the dark wood perforated box that integrates the rooms, the domestic and light that, in appearance, floats above the vegetation.
The façade is a pictorial challenge and a response to the landscape; just as Luis Fernando Peláez deals with time in his works through the ubiquity of the subject in permanence, MH is a temporary proposal, which not only contrasts its surroundings, but also remains unchanged to its transformations.
Casa MH
The cube must stand out, not for its grandiloquence, but for being a point of reference in the landscape, in this way, the architectural result does not come from mimesis, but from contrast: it is a rational exercise that is understood as a complement to the surrounding forest.
Casa MH
The volume works with two categories of perforation: on the first level, the stone, when opened, seeks to embrace the courtyards in a game between interior-exterior; on the second level, the wooden cube opens openings that frame the distant landscape, referencing Adalberto Libero's Malaparte house.
The interior reinterprets the exterior contrast as it proposes a chiaroscuro; the intention of the design moves from referentiality to the domestic. It rescues the talking pit, is composed of clarity and, paradoxically, takes advantage of transparency to converse continuously with its surroundings.
In this way, the furniture is complementary to the materiality of the house. It is the texture that replaces the cladding, defining its color palette from the constructive purity.
The internal distribution is proportional to its volumetry, in this sense, the program is developed in an elongated architecture and understands itself as a ship that integrates and does not segment.
Casa MH
MH is a floor plant exercise that translates into a materiality where the pictorial component takes precedence over its natural context. It is conceived from the referentiality and it is constituted as a volume that is between the hermetic and the permeable, which builds a set of planes that derive in the shadow and in the integration.