Project title: Isarog residential building

Location: Mt Isarog , Naga city

The Isarog drive houses are a pair of single-family

residences on an extremely steep lot in the
Mount Isarog neighborhood of Naga city. At
2,000sf each, the pair are modest in size and have
an unusual four-story configuration to minimize
impact on the hillside.

Each is composed of a pair of stacked floorplates

elevated over a concrete base housing the garage and an elevated outdoor dining patio. The second-
floor void splits the façade into a pair of smaller masses (garage and house) more suited to the scale of
the surrounding residential neighborhood. The fourth level cantilever overglazing spans the width of the
front façade at the living level to capture views west over downtown the city of naga to the ocean of
Minalabac.

The pair feature a loft-like main level that is open and continuous from the front living and dining area to
a double-height kitchen facing the backyard. While both have a similar distribution of large and private
rooms, the spatial configurations vary. The lower house is composed of shifted floorplates that
cantilever over the lower levels, and the upper house is a set of rotated frames that interlock between
the third and fourth levels.