Casa Varda A three-bedroom single-family residence set on a steeply sloping plot within the Fauna y Flora development, Alto de Las Palmas, Antioquia. The house rises on columns to minimise direct intervention on the terrain, free the lower level as usable programme and capture the view the site offers over Rionegro and the native forest that surrounds it. The section is resolved across two main levels articulated by a five-step interior level change, a floating corridor at double height and a central skylight that channels natural light down the wall of the double-height space. Construction system: dry build drywall, superboard and corrugated metal roofing in anthracite.
What the structure organises, the materials make liveable. Three piedra cucaracha walls shape the approach as a sequence: contained, mineral, gradual. Inside, ceilings finish in curves and drop onto a warm LED light line. The kitchen red, terrazzo occupies the centre of social life without apology. The main bedroom opens at a columnless corner, capturing a half-circle sweep of the landscape. Every space has its own way of facing outward.
Casa Varda was designed for two people who live in Aruba and come to Colombia for extended stays. It does not try to ignore that distance or compensate for it: it turns it into architecture. The house knows how to receive, knows how to stand alone, and knows how when night falls and the mist descends over the forest to stay still inside a cloud.
