Casa Serpiente
San Isidro, Lima (2007-2011)
House

One of Lima’s biggest handicaps is its severe lack of trees, as a result, we didn’t want to remove any trees from within our site. However, we had been requested to deliver a house with living spaces contained to one floor, disallowing a vertical solution. We resolved this by aligning the entire program as a continuous ‘snake’, dodging the trees while slowly ramping up from the ground up to the height of the branches, liberating the garden and creating a view into it from various perspectives. With its meandering, the house produces several gardens: an inner courtyard, lateral ‘private’ gardens, a front yard and a covered gravel garden. The spatiality of the house is utterly based on the different ways to relate with the trees.