Beatriz Elena House is a compact black volume set in the basin of Lake Llanquihue, in southern Chile, designed during the social, economic and health crises of 2020. The project responds to material scarcity with an architecture that is intentionally simple on the outside and intensely layered on the inside. 

​

The 9 × 6 m container protects the home with contemporary thermal envelopes, while its interior is assembled from seven recycled steel columns, industrial truss scraps, laurel timber recovered from fire, and salvaged doors and windows from houses in demolition. The layout reinterprets rural vernacular typologies—gallery, integrated kitchen-living, corridor with bathroom at the end—so that reused fragments, traces of weathering, and mismatched eras coexist in one continuous space. 

​

The house works as a small “Aleph”: a single interior where many times and places converge, turning a low-cost dwelling into a container of memories, materials and worlds.