Perched upon a cliff on the rocky desert shores of the Pacific Ocean in Peru, this retreat by Longhi Architects cuts multiple stories into the earth below while lofting a set of glass-sided boxes up, out and over a series of pools and walkways below. These overlapping boxes move upward from the smooth intersection of road and site, topped with sand-covered roofs that serve as regionally-appropriate alternatives in a climate not ready to support strictly ‘green’ surfaces.From within the home, the views out are (naturally) remarkable on the higher levels, but equally impressive are the ways in which the lower floors are left raw and rough-cut, looking almost like abandoned and half-buried ruins on top of which the rest of the structure was built.
Longhi Architects