Mahalo House

Considering the elongated shape of the site and its relationship with the city views, the house’s layout follows its longitudinal axis—east to west. From this axis, spaces are developed to occupy the land appropriately, adjusting to the topography and integrating nature, which remains present in all areas and pathways.

Physically, the house is materialized into two parts: a horizontal pavilion that is open and permeable, housing almost the entire program, and a tower, a hermetic volume with controlled openings to the landscape, where the office is located on the ground floor and a living room on the upper level.

The structure is modular and designed to follow the logic of the layout. Along the east-west axis, four 9-meter spans are developed, with 6-meter cantilevers at each end. Transversely, there is a 6-meter span with two 2-meter cantilevers on each side, defining the pavilion-like structure of the horizontal volume. The tower is built with cast-in-place concrete walls.

The architecture proposed here seeks to echo the senses and subtleties found in Brasília, in the harmonious relationship between built and unbuilt spaces, between solid and void, in the delicate forms in which the architecture hovers above the ground without obstructing it, allowing for continuity and the multiplicity of possible paths. In these relationships, a beautiful and inspiring encounter between architecture and nature occurs.

Our design seeks to embody a general sense of the relationship between architecture and nature in a singular image, a synthesis—the recreated landscape. This is where we aim to place the human being, in this dialectical and fertile relationship.