House M | Jaime Ortiz de Zevallos

House M

House M is located on a corner plot overlooking a public park, about a mile away from the coast, in Lima’s 1950´s traditional residential neighborhood of San Isidro. The project has been developed as a basic composition of volumes, planes and materials that define the spaces in response to the views, light, privacy, and a large program.

Photography by © Juan Solano Ojasi

The four story building is defined by a half sunken garage, office space and service area, all of which raises the living quarters above street level generating a platform for the rest of the building.

The first floor of the house, with the garage roof top garden, living, dining room and the kitchen area sit above the street, overlooking the park through glass walls, while solid concrete walls block the view from the street and generate an entry sequence in to the house.

Photography by © Juan Solano Ojasi

The third and fourth levels are defined by a two-story wood screen and a horizontal white cantilever volume, with the bedrooms, family room and gym that floats along the tree canopies over the ivy-covered concrete wall that surrounds the house.

Photography by © Juan Solano Ojasi

Project Info
Architects: Jaime Ortiz de Zevallos
Location: San Isidro, Peru
Manufacturers: Hansgrohe, Kohler, Miyasato
Area: 980.0 m2
Year: 2014
Type: Residential
Photographs: Juan Solano Ojasi