A Cabin Springs Up Above a Dry Creek Bed in a Chilean Forest

Claudia García Cardemil and Ivan Petricio were thinking about the future when they decided to build a house in Chile’s Los Ríos region, more than 500 miles from their primary residence in Santiago. Their sons, Dusan and Andro, were nearly college age, and the couple sought a vacation home that could also serve as a year-round retirement residence.