TRANSFORMATIONS. 1 motto and 3 iconic homes. 3 iconic homes and the same starting point: recover the project or idea generating these architectures to build 3 weekend residences that capture the essence of these masterpieces.

We start in Los Angeles with the famous house of the Eames.

Mirador al Pacífico aims on the one hand to allude to the initial project, a "bridge house", as well as to recover the sea views, today lost by the natural colonization of the plot.

We are located in the existing unevenness generating a patio that relates the pieces present with ours, which is supported by 2 recessed beams seeming to float.

Through a walkway we access our "belvedere", first of 3 floors organized by a central spine that houses the endowments leaving the rest of the space free.

Our second stop takes us to the island of Muuratsalo, Finland, where the Alvar Aalto Experimental Villa is located.

In this case we intend to vindicate the original conception of the project marked by the only possibility of reaching the island by water.

Nemo Profeta in Patria, motto of Aalto's boat, (designed by himself for Lake Muuratsalo) gives name to our proposal.

We are located in the water being the location of our home the result of a "trip" in search of the position in which both the house and its reflection are appreciated clear enough to recognize it, but ambiguous enough to create an illusion.


Our house consists of two floors, an upper one in which we place a space destined to observe the Villa and a lower one, submerged, in which we have a multipurpose space that alludes to that meeting around the fire that occurred in the courtyard of the original house.

In this way the symmetry generated by the Experimental Villa when reflected in the lake, which was nothing more than a mirage, becomes reality in our section.

Finally, we return to the hills of Los Angeles with another of the Case Study Houses: La Casa Stahl.

Legend has it that when Koenig saw the location chosen by the Stahl couple, he said that it was ideal for an "eagle's nest": a house with 360 views over the city and that he never thought to be admired from the outside but to look from inside.

We decided to relate directly to the original home.

We extend the pool platform, which becomes the roof of our building (with a sheet of water that simulates the extension of the pool) that advances recovering the privileged views that the house had lost.

From this slab we take down our building, which is excavated in the rock at its back, where we house the server spaces: bathrooms and bedroom, while the front, hung from three concrete edge beams and their respective metal tensioners, is released in its entirety.