The chic seaside village of Zapallar is known as “the Hamptons of Chile.” A 2½-hour drive from the capital city of Santiago, Zapallar has wide, sandy beaches. But, unlike the Long Island enclave of villages about the same distance from New York, it is dry, very windy, and mountainous.
Alejandro Reyes, a lawyer from Santiago, found a half-acre of land overlooking the Pacific on the small, narrow peninsula called Punta Pinte (“tip of the wind”) as a site for a family weekend retreat. But he wouldn’t buy the property unless the architects Santiago Valdivieso and Stefano Rolla would elevate the house high enough to see the sea to the west, the large bay to the east, and the forest to the south.
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