Avitare / Casa Sofía by HACEDORMAKER_
Avitare / Casa Sofía sits on a forested cliff in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, conceived as a premier short‑term rental house by HACEDORMAKER_. The concrete dwelling balances frontal privacy with uninterrupted views north to the Atlantic, shaping a clear gradient from street to sea. Inside, a rigorous geometry organizes rooms and courtyards while the structure works hard against sun, glare, and heat.
The approach runs quiet along a hermetic facade with small, calibrated apertures. Step inside and the view snaps open toward a patio, pool, and the glittering Atlantic beyond.
This is a house on a narrow, cliff‑edge parcel in Aguadilla, planned and built by HACEDORMAKER_ for a boutique rental program. One idea guides the project: a viewfinder to the sea, expressed through a T‑shaped plan and a disciplined concrete structure that modulates light, glare, and heat.
The T‑bar organizes the whole. Private rooms align as discrete boxes along the long axis, while a transverse volume holds kitchen, dining, and living oriented perpendicular to the coastline. That crossing move creates a clear pause between inward focus and outward reach, so circulation reads as a calm splice between retreat and panorama.
Set the View
Entry compresses through a trumpet‑like threshold that aims the eye north. A knife‑edged central skylight pulls daylight deep onto the spine, sharpening contrast so the patio reads bright and the street side stays dimmer. The result is a controlled glare—sun managed, horizon framed.
Inverted Beams Align
Tall, orthogonal inverted beams define the main volume and register as a readable rhythm. Between them, a minimal steel colonnade filters the patio, keeping the ocean in steady sight while loading the roof to the perimeter. Structure doubles as order, and rooms sit as boxes of increasing porosity toward the cliff.
Concrete, Two Textures
Reinforced concrete reads as folded plates, alternating between smooth plastered planes and board‑formed surfaces that hold the grain. Aluminum screens temper openings and lend shade, while a triangular motif recurs at the pool edge, the master balcony, and a dining wall where custom concrete tiles carry a repeating three‑dimensional module. Tactility matters here.
Roof as Thermal Mass
Overhead, the roof expresses a waffle‑like soffit, built to act as thermal ballast. A shallow, open cistern stores rainwater below future PV arrays, adding weight and evaporative cooling while stockpiling a resource on site. The section works hard, and the interior gains a cooler, steadier feel through the day.
Privacy to Porosity
Street frontage stays reserved with small, tuned openings that cue what’s ahead. Past the hinge point, the plan pushes out to a patio and triangular pool, where view, breeze, and light take the lead without glare.
The house reads as a rectilinear geology set against the Atlantic and steep drop of the site. Edges cut clean, textures register time, and the horizon holds the composition. At day’s end, the concrete cools and the view goes blue, quiet and precise.
Photography courtesy of HACEDORMAKER_
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