Casa del Jardin Espiral
San Isidro, Lima (2008-2009)
House Renovation

We were commissioned to renovate a house to suit the new family that would occupy it. The house had a small back garden, but what the clients really dreamed about was a house in a garden. Was it perhaps an impossible dream given the existing structure and the lot size? Would we have to limit ourselves to rennovation?
Perhaps, if we could fit the entire program under a garden, which occupies as much of the plot as possible, we could achieve the dream house. But how would the house be lit? And above all, how would we see the garden from the house?
Cutting and folding, we turned the garden into a spiral, with this we could illuminate the house, generate views to the garden, and locate the pool in an ideal position: maximizing the garden and the house. The existing house is used almost entirely, a small part is demolished, and another part is built to adapt it to the new reality. A continuous spiral garden creates a path that leads from the entrance all the way up to the pool on the third level.