Architect: Opus
Location: Carmen de Viboral – Antioquia, Colombia
Contracting Entity / Promoter: FS-MC Family
Project Type: Architecture
Category: Housing and Habitat
Area: 370 m²
Interior Design: Espacio Abierto y Pezeta
Development Phase: In use
Photos: Isaac Ramirez

The home is located on sloping lots surrounded by mountains.

A view of the home's angled roofs mimicking the sloping lots. — A view of the home’s angled roofs mimicking the sloping lots.

A brick walkway flanked by ferns and creeping plants leads to the home entry.

Cascading stones add visual interest to the garden.

The garden leads to the sleek entry with a pivot door.

The pivot door reveals the eat-in kitchen crowned with a beamed ceiling.

The living room offers tufted leather seats and breathtaking views of the surrounding mountains.

The decks are filled with outdoor dining and living.

A rustic bar adorned with creeping plants separates the kitchen from the dining space.

Sliding glass doors and panoramic windows provide magnificent views to the kitchen.

The kitchen opens to a private courtyard.

The hallway is flanked by wood-paneled walls and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the garden.

This bedroom offers a custom bunk bed and built-in cabinet.

Warm pendant lights illuminate this bedroom. It has a private balcony accessible through sliding glass doors.

A sloped lot leading to the home's entry. — A sloped lot leading to the home’s entry.

Aerial view of the house showcasing its angled roofs, spacious decks, and expansive garden.

The location of La Pausa arises from the understanding of a hilly relief typical of the central mountain range, in the municipality of Carmen de Viboral, Antioquia. It is located at an altitude of approximately 1,000 meters above sea level, its hillside condition inevitably directs the gaze towards a mountainous landscape, amplifying the property’s own horizon.

The recognition of the place influenced by its landscape and relief suggests the location of the work. From the access to the place, the visuals are preserved and it is inscribed in the relief, settling on its contour lines. The access begins from the upper part of the lot, where the roof extends the upper plane of the slope through a habitable garden that in turn fulfills thermal functions, guaranteeing comfort inside the house.

The access to the house is by means of a ramp that descends almost three meters in height under the arrival plane; it is an immersion in the earth that concludes in a patio that responds to a first pause area to enter.

Upon exceeding the access threshold, the social area opens up to the landscape through large openings that link intermediate spaces between the interior and exterior, a duality that is promoted throughout the house seeking to inhabit the limit.

The home responds to the activities of the couple that inhabits it, an active social life that combines interior and exterior, privacy in guest rooms and the main one as an intimate reserve.