You Can See Right Through Their Glassy Cabin on the Chilean Coast

“Initially, we proposed fewer glass panes to control sunlight and energy loss,” says architect Daniel Iragüen. “But in the end, we made the house almost completely transparent.”

For almost two decades, Elisabeth Inostroza and Francisco Salinas lived in Iquique, a port city in Chile’s northern reaches. As time went by and their grown children moved to Santiago, where many other relatives also live, they found themselves making the 1,000-mile trip south more times than they could count.

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