Casa Tam reimagines a home at the base of the Andes, on the edge of Santiago, shaped over time by successive additions and modifications. Balancing new interventions with thoughtful preservation, the design approaches the existing structure as a layered record—extending fragments of earlier configurations while connecting them through new spatial relationships.
Facing the street, the house adopts a lifted, urban-oriented façade, while subtly turning its back to the mountains. The roof traces the natural slope of the site, stepping down toward the garden and compressing the rear into a partially embedded edge. Inside, a double-height living and dining area opens onto an inner garden shared with the main bedroom, while service zones and a ceramics studio line the street side. Above, two children’s rooms are linked by a common studio space, encouraging shared use.
Concrete elements at the lower level bind together the home’s layered past, while the lightweight upper floor minimizes structural impact on the original foundations. Indoors, traces of earlier stages remain visible through shifts in materials, unified by white surfaces and exposed cuts in the walls. Outside, a standing-seam metal envelope gives the house a cohesive, monolithic identity. The only entirely new volume—a small kiln room clad in painted timber—signals the latest chapter in the house’s continuous evolution.
_Project: TAM HOUSE
_Architects:
@comodoroo
_Location & Year: El Arrayán, Chile - 2025
_Design Team: Iván Bravo &
@martin.ror
_Collaborators: Juan Oyarzún
_Photography: BARO
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