Lima, Peru
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Casa Serpiente
Lima, Peru
We had to design a house in a site containing 25 grown trees. In such arid city as Lima, that is a very rare occasion. One of Lima’s biggest handicaps is its severe lack of trees. Being so precious, we didn’t want to take down any tree, but we were requested to deliver a one-story house. Disallowed for a vertical solution, we lined all the program -as a snake- dodging the trees while slowly ramping up from the ground until reaching the height of the branches; liberating the garden and now watching it from different perspectives. In its meandering, the house produces several gardens: an inner courtyard, lateral ‘private’ gardens, a front yard and a covered gravel garden.