SKL House by CÂPÂ arquitectura
SKL House is a house in Envigado, Colombia, designed by CÂPÂ arquitectura as a sequence of four modules set across a sloping site. Completed in 2019, the home uses rotations, garden passages, and shifting levels to bind those parts into one continuous dwelling. A dark exterior gives way to light wood interiors, where double heights, angled openings, and cross views keep movement and daylight in constant play.
About SKL House
SKL House unfolds in a way that turns the house back toward itself. Set on sloping topography, it is arranged as four modules that step with the site. Though they read as separate pieces at first, two garden tunnels join them into a single dwelling. Their rotation creates angular openings that make room for interior gardens.
Each module keeps the same proportions, but each is inverted in relation to the previous one. That shift establishes a shared rule between the roofs, trestle levels, and the lateral heights of the facades.
Black on the outside and lined with light wood across the interior, the house is defined by changing levels and double heights. The rooms are bright and open, and the color of the light shifts as it enters from different directions. Glazed, rotated facades create a transverse transparency that carries views through the house.
Movement is central to the experience of the home. Access begins on a bridge, and a metal walkway holds a library above the social area. Elsewhere, the program expands to include a ceramic workshop on the first level, a mesh set within a double-height volume, and a Turkish room.
The house reveals itself gradually in motion rather than all at once. As one walks through it, asymmetrical perspectives and the contrast between dark exterior surfaces and pale interior finishes become the defining condition of daily life.
Photography courtesy of CÂPÂ arquitectura
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