Set on the steep slopes rising up alongside
Chile’s spectacular Central Coast, Ghat
House, designed by the Santiago architect
Max Núñez, is arranged as a series of boxes
held up by 15 dynamically canted concrete
columns. Inside, a concrete staircase
rises up from ground level, while a similarly
vertiginous external stairway steps down
the length of the sloping façade, offering up
far-reaching ocean views. From above,
the house reads only as a series of wooden
pavilions, with a spectacular hidden
underworld below. maxnunez.clBEST NEW PRIVATE HOUSE
Ghat House, Chile,
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