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In addition to serving as a terrace, the flat roof affords Emi the opportunity to expand the house upward someday, but for now she uses it for her yoga practice. “When I’m in Argentina, I come here every week,” she says. “I like that the boundaries between the interior and exterior living spaces are not clearly defined, just as I like that the weekends and weekdays blur into each other when I’m here.

“Since Julie and Chris are structural engineers, I thought we should show off what they do with this cantilevered concrete slab for the new front stoop,” says architect Ian Butcher.

The Alerce shingles change color when it rains, moving from red to grey. “It’s alive,” says Marambio.