Prism House + Terrace Room by Smiljan Radić is an “exercise in repetition and replication”

A tree grows through a wooden deck between two angular black volumes that form this house that architect Smiljan Radić has designed near a national park in Chile.

Prism House + Terrace Room is raised above a sloped terrain near to Conguillío National Park on a stilted, wooden deck.Measuring 184 square metres, the residence was split into two volumes that replicate principles in one of Radić’s earlier projects and Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara’s Prism House.

“In truth, this house is an exercise in repetition and replication, it is doing something again, though the gods may anger and the attempt always fails,” said Radić.The Chilean architect said the vantage point offers views down to the dead river of lava from a previous eruption of nearby Llaima Volcano.