Eucalyptus´ trunks, rocks, concrete and glass were the base-materials that made up the house. The client was a family composed by 3 individual (father, mother and son) who loved nature. The father works as high-mountain climbing guide and his wife really enjoys a quiet and chilling place such is Tumbaco valley. Their son used to climb mountains and rocks.

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There were 3 main problems to solve within this project: the first one was to create a storage space for the whole house and its habitants; create privacy among social areas (kitchen, living room, hall, dining room) and bedrooms; and finally keep an austere and sober aesthetics of the house design. The project was collaboration between 3 professionals: Juan Subía (Afuego diseño), Felipe Donoso and Diego Benavides (BUENAVIDA).

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The Wall-closet was had to cover the whole house longitudinally through 3 rooms by side: (a) Matrimonial bedroom / living room, (b) Kitchen / son´s bedroom and (c) Working studio / music room. Every room required solving storage and privacy needs such sound and visual isolation. So that, the piece of furniture had to fulfill the next functions: wall-closet, cellar, wardrobe, chest of drawers, jeweler, kitchen shelf, desk and wall as well.

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To keep the design philosophy of the house, it was necessary to apply a simple geometry in the design. The house´s roof was built with recycled wood panels, which encouraged us to use the same material in the furniture adding a very valuable aspect to the project´s aesthetic. As a structure, a square steel tube was used since the furniture would be of large dimensions (height greater than 3 m) and had to withstand on many occasions a considerable weight such as books, a TV or a fish tank.