Casa Aire

There are a lot of talented architects out there who dare to push the envelope in terms of what can be achieved and that’s definitely the case with Casa Aire from Cinco Sólidos. The design studio has completely refurbished a gabled house for the musician, J. Balvin, who wanted the home to look as though it were a house in the air. Hence the name.

Casa Aire from Cinco Sólidos is located in the mountains just outside Medellin in Colombia and the architects used the footprint of a previous dwelling when designing Casa Aire, which was cleverly crafted to make the stunning property appear separate from a steep site.

Boasting some 1,593 square metres of living space, the house was built parallel to a slope, having an array of rooms that connect to cantilevered pool decks and possess out-of-this-world views. Casa Aire has been clad in concrete panelling with steel accents that have been painted a light green colour and consists of a series of gabled volumes with large swathes of glass.

Taking design inspiration from Japanese architecture, Casa Aire has an impressive series of reflecting pools and courtyards. At the entrance, a number of steps lead across a reflecting pool crisscrossed by a concrete wall with a circular void in the middle that essentially acts as a window to a solitary bonsai tree in the middle of the pool.

In the living spaces of Casa Aire, where there is an open-plan kitchen, the high gabled ceiling with exposed board-form concrete slopes down toward the floor-to-ceiling opening that joins the living room to the terraces of this majestic home.

For the terraces, awnings with steel stilts deliver a pleasing transition from the indoors to the outdoor areas of the home. Wooden decks with a series of pools, garden boxes and recessed seating areas step down with the slope.

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