Eugenio Simonetti MAUD ’08 has completed KW House, a residential project immersed in a native preservation forest in southern Chile. Simonetti, a 2019 Harvard Visiting Faculty Design Critic of the Studio named Social Operative Infrastructure, worked on KW House alongside Bastian San Martin.

Open to nature, the first floor of KW House is built as a glass aquarium based on a large open floor plan with three staircases in the central axis. The second floor is designed as a series of apartments, defined by vestibules that can be connected and disconnected depending on the privacy preferences of the inhabitants.

“KW House was developed on the basis of some fundamental strategic choices, in particular the ability to convey the atmosphere of the internal environments into the heart of the forest and the possibility of climatically exploiting the residence both during the winter season and in the height of the summer period.” Read more about this unique project in Area Magazine and Designboom.

Images courtesy of Eugenio Simonetti.