All language subtitles for Las mas secretas 3

[peaceful music]
[birds chirping]

[Charlie] Imagine
living in a home

that sits secluded in a forest,

on a 100-kilometer beach,

or on top of a mountain.

[uplifting music]
[helicopter blades whirring]

In this series we
travel the globe

to explore some of the
world's most secret homes,

hidden away in truly
inspiring locations,

from stunning lakeside escapes
and secluded mountain cabins.

Our favorite activity
is sitting here

and looking at the view.

[Charlie] To coastal
sanctuaries and city treasures.

Spaces like this can
cause the spirit to soar.

[Charlie] We explore how
these spectacular homes

were built.

The whole thing
is on the move,

all the way along
this coastline.

[Charlie] And meet the
people who live in them.

We fell in love with
the nature, the scene,

it was love at first sight.

[Charlie] As we discover
the World's Most Secret Homes.

[breathtaking music]
[birds singing]

Stretching for
over 320 kilometers

across southeastern Brazil,

the Serra da Mantiqueira
mountain range

has some of the highest
peaks in the country.

Mantiqueira means the
mountain that cries.

It's a reference to the vast
number of springs, streams,

and waterfalls that run
down the peaks and valleys.

[breathtaking music]

These mountains have always
been important to Brazil,

from the gold rush of the
17th and 18th centuries,

to the coffee boom
a century later.

Today, this remote area,

famed for its wildlife
and spectacular scenery,

is also the site
of a secret home.

[imposing music]

Hidden amongst the
local Araucaria trees,

an enormous wooden grid appears
to hover above the valley.

[commanding music]

The straight lines
and right angles

contrast sharply with
the undulating terrain.

Yet the house still seems to
perfectly fit in its setting.

This striking building is
known as the Grid House.

[delicate music]

And the checkerboard
home is unique.

The owner of this remote
mountaintop complex

is Wilson Kuzuhara.

His aim was to create a home

in a place he has
loved for many years.

I decided with my wife
that this was the place

that we would like
to build a house.

I said I would like a house
integrated with nature,

to protect and respect
all the environments.

[delicate music]

[Charlie] The design
of this sprawling house

is inspired by the sliding
doors and wide verandas

of traditional Japanese homes.

From above it resembles
a giant crossword puzzle.

The whole area covers
2,000 square meters,

and is constructed in
modules over one main floor.

There's a living room,
kitchen, dining room,

TV room, and four
self-contained family pods,

each with a bed and living area.

[inspiring music]
[birds chirping]

To build this dream
mountain home,

Wilson worked with
architect Fernando Forte.

Wilson said,
"Okay, let's walk now

about four or five
kilometers into the woods

and I want to show you
some special place.

And then we came up here

and there was like a big plot
in the middle of the jungle

with some little cows around

and he said, "What
do you guys think?

Do you think it's possible

to make an interesting
house here?",

and we said, "Oh yes,
of course, just do it!

We will do something
great here together".

[frolicking music]

[Charlie] The
terrain here is uneven,

so to respect the
contours of the land,

Fernando came up with
an unusual design

for this isolated house.

[Fernando] We did
not want to put a house

that came from like a flying
saucer that was landed here,

so we decided to
make it like a grid,

so nature, after maybe 10 or
15 years, would grow across it

and we have like a new harmony

between architecture and nature.

[Charlie] The house is so
vast that covered walkways

connect all of the
self-contained family units.

Japanese-style benches
on the verandas

allow visitors to rest
and take in the views.

This is kind of the
heart of the house

because it's the passage
through the house

from one side to the other,

and the way to get into
the different rooms.

And you can see all the grid
here in different aspects.

You can see the
garden underneath.

Here we did a lot of pergolas.

The original plan was to
put glass on top of it,

before they put in the glass,

Wilson told us, "Oh,
we love it like this.

We will just leave a couple
of umbrellas over there,

if you want to go to your room

and by any chance's
it's raining, you just use an umbrella".

[soothing music]
[birds chirping]

[vibrant music]

[Charlie] The real luxury
of this home becomes clear

when you step inside.

The largest part of the grid

is taken up by the
main living space.

There's a large
area for relaxing,

a kitchen,

and dining space.

The roof comes with a surprise,

its own stream.

And these Japanese-style water
mirrors have been created

to reflect the
edges of the garden.

You can see here how
symmetrical landscape

is on top of the house,

so it's not like trying
to imitate nature.

We didn't want rails
all over the place,

we wanted to make these
water mirrors here

so people won't fall down the
gaps here in the structure,

and so you get your feet
wet before you fall down,

so if your feet is wet,
you're in danger [laughs].

I think this is one of the
most interesting places

to understand the house,

because we can see
the Araucaria trees,

they are protected by law

so we have to take
really good care of them

during construction but also
integrate them with the grid.

[cheerful music]

This is one of the
children's rooms.

And we sat with which
one of them separately

and said, "Okay,
what do we want?

Do you want two
bedrooms, one bedroom?".

Each one of them could
choose the way they wanted

this particular space for
their upcoming families.

[Charlie] All the
living spaces in this home

have been specifically designed
to meet the family's needs.

A set of concrete pillars
supports the Grid House.

The home is embedded into
the landscape on two sides

to form a bridge-like structure.

The edges of the grid are
anchored into the hill,

while the pillars hold
up the central section.

A series of specially
made steel brackets

attach these pillars to the
metal and wooden beams above.

Two 11-meter-long steel
beams reinforce the structure

to avoid an excessive
number of pillars.

The Grid House is
full of surprises.

It's an unconventional concept

that has been
brilliantly executed,

and its epic design
conceals yet more secrets.

[vigorous music]

Two leisure pavilions jut
out from the mountain.

These structures sit on the
highest point of the land

to make most of their
magical surroundings.

The rooms have 360 degree
views across the landscape,

and provide a
dramatic counterpoint

to the house set in
the valley below.

Inside the main pavilion
there is a pool table,

which leads onto a kitchen diner

and living area with
panoramic window.

The second pavilion
houses a spa,

with wet and dry
sauna and a jacuzzi.

[vigorous music]

[tranquil music]

Suspended above the valley
yet merging into the hills,

the Grid House
redefines the boundaries

of interior and exterior living.

The 70,000 local species of
trees planted around the site

will help it merge even
more into the landscape

as time passes.

It's a very special
place to stay.

It's a city house, but
it's a masterpiece.

[Charlie] Wilson has
achieved his ambition

of building an
extraordinary house

in one of his favorite
places in the world.

His dream really has come true.

9,400 kilometers northeast,

off the south coast of England,

lies the Isle of Wight.

Known for its coastal
scenery and lush countryside,

this island played a big part

in the success of the Allied
forces during World War II.

Today, an intriguing wartime
relic has been transformed

into an inspiring secret home.

[wistful music]
[waves crashing]

[subdued music]

Hidden under the landscape

on the edge of the
island's south coast

is an historic structure
that's been reinvented

for 21st century living.

This building was
originally constructed

as a radar station
during the war.

Today, it's been transformed
into the secret Bunker House.

[spirited music]

The owners of this historic
home are architect Lincoln Miles

and his wife,
artist Lisa Traxler.

We acquired the
site three years ago.

It was a gift of a project,
it's a Second World War bunker

in the landscape
next to the sea,

what's not to love about that,

so it was like the
ultimate project.

[Charlie] The house
covers 287 square meters

over two floors.

On the top floor there
is a master bedroom,

with dressing room,
en-suite bathroom and sauna,

reading room, and guest
room with bathroom.

On the ground floor
there's a living room,

kitchen, and dining room.

A long corridor connects the
house to the old bunker itself.

[calm music]

It was a no-brainer in one way

because it's so beautiful here,

and I think the history
of the place, for me,

was just amazing.

[Charlie] Once
they bought the site

and decided to
incorporate the old bunker

into the build of
their new home,

Lisa undertook
extensive research on the abandoned building

that had been built in 1942.

It was really
on the front line

during the Second World War,

so it was very, very
important for the UK,

and I think just
uncovering this history

and the stories behind
what was going on here,

it just drew me in, the more
and more I looked into it,

there were so many
more layers to it.

[dramatic music]

[Charlie] The
bunker had been built

as an early warning radar
station by the Royal Air Force

to detect and track
enemy aircraft

and warn the nation
of their approach.

It was the most southerly
radar station in Britain.

[peaceful music]

[birds singing]

The idea when we
were talking together

about doing this
project was the fact

that we talked about not doing
anything with the bunker,

so we weren't making
it into a kitchen,

we weren't making into a spare
room, that sort of thing.

I think we're very lucky

that we've been able
to leave it very pure,

so it is still what
it actually was.

The design of this dwelling,

which hooks into
the existing bunker,

is done in such a way that
the foundations don't meet,

they aren't joining,
the buildings are separated by a void,

that was important to us.

Strip us out and
you're back to 1942.

Effectively, I describe the
house as hidden in plain sight.

It's here, you can see it,

but it's a silhouette,
in fact, what is it?

It reveals itself as you
go around the corners,

but still you're
not sure what it is.

[Charlie] Lincoln and
Lisa designed the facade

of the house to resemble the
military camouflage system

called dazzle camouflage.

The striking pattern
was developed originally

to protect warships at sea.

Its idea was it was painted
onto vessels out at sea,

huge geometric patterning all
over the side of the vessels,

and what this did was
it confused the eye,

I just thought how fascinating

this would be on our building,

so how could we wrap our
building in a dazzle camouflage?

[Charlie] The result
is a steel system

that enhances the modern
feel of the house,

but at the same time,
looks to its past.

[gentle music]

As you cross the threshold,

you enter straight into
the open plan living space.

Only when you come
through this door,

this entrance here, this portal
here, does it really unfold

and reveal the
brilliance of the space.

[zestful music]

This is the first time you
get an experience of our home,

the kitchen and the dining.

It's a light-filled space.

The whole sort of design
intent here is to be non-fussy,

its materials are all on show,

cross-laminate timber ceiling,

roughcast concrete on
all these surfaces.

We've zoned things so
there's quite a drop

between here and the lounge.

And then you're
presented with the views

of the English Channel
and the landscape.

This little sculpture
park we have here,

it's an amazing space.

[Charlie] The window
frames of this home

are quite extraordinary,

as they're made from paper

that has been treated
in a revolutionary way.

All the doors and
windows in this property

are made of this
paper composite.

No screws, no bolts, no welding,

no rusty bits, just pure paper.

The material comes from
skate parks in the States,

very resilient and tough
outside and take the bashing,

and now it's been
used architecturally

to do doors and windows.

[Charlie] The
paper is compressed

into an extremely
durable material.

Up to 250 layers of
pulped, recycled paper

are coated in resin
and fused together

under compression and heat.

This solid mass goes
through a machine

that forms it into the
shape of a window frame

that won't rot or
need any maintenance.

It is very exciting, in fact,

this is the first paper door
and window framing system

in the world.

[bright music]

[Charlie] Upstairs
is the master bedroom,

and en-suite bathroom
with a sauna.

There's also a guest suite,

and a reading room.

[bright music]

The deeper you travel
into this house,

the more its
history is revealed.

Lincoln designed this corridor

to connect the modern
house with the old bunker.

On first viewing, well,
what the hell's going on,

it's a bit of a tunnel to it,

it's quite compressed
with the ceiling,

but then equally, there's
painting on the wall

and block work walls
and concrete floor.

But there is something
in the distance,

which is this sort
of yellowy glow,

so that's all presenting
the idea of the bunker

somewhere in the distance.

[Charlie] The bunker space
is now where artist Lisa

exhibits her work.

Here we are in
the bunker itself,

so in this little time chamber,

and it's got the
really brutalist walls

that you can see all
the marks of time.

And it's a really
still space as well.

I like to think of it as
the room of requirement,

so it can be what
we need it to be.

At the moment, I've got
an exhibition in here.

[twinkling music]

So this is a space
now that we've created

or we've left and let be created

that will encourage other
creatives to come along,

so whether it be other artists
to have shows or musicians,

we've had a theater troupe here.

To have this space
as part of our home,

I can't quite get
my head around it,

we are so, so, so lucky
to have this space.

[exuberant music]

[Charlie] Lisa and Lincoln
have successfully merged

the old with the
new in their efforts

to forge a modern home
around the old bunker,

and this historic site
conceals one more surprise.

We found, when we
acquired the site,

that we had some
quite beautiful, but very derelict, huts,

almost like a
glorified garden shed.

[Charlie] These
army huts were built

at the same time as the bunker.

They were used as a living
space for the soldiers

who operated and guarded the
early warning radar system.

Now fully restored,

Lisa and Lincoln use
them as their studios.

I think you get a feeling

that you could still be
steeped in history here,

and you could time
travel a little bit.

And when I think back to
what these little huts

were like originally, they
were very, very derelict.

I have a beautiful view out the
window, I have lovely light,

I can watch the storms
rolling in across the sea,

and this is my
thinking space as well.

I'm so lucky to be
able to work from here.

[reposeful music]
[birds singing]

Such a wonderful
place to live,

it's just staggeringly
beautiful, actually, and we love it.

[Charlie] Lisa and
Lincoln have created

a beautiful modern home

from the ruins of this
derelict building,

saving it for
future generations,

and retaining a small piece
of this island's legacy.

[imposing music]

[pulsating music]

8,600 kilometers west
is San Francisco,

on America's north
Californian coast.

Known for its
unique microclimate,

rolling hills and
liberal attitudes,

it's a cool, elegant city.

[pulsating music]

It is the cultural
and financial center

of the western United States,

but this success
comes at a price.

San Francisco is the second
most densely populated

city in the US,

which makes living space
here very, very precious.

This is Lombard Street,

the location of many
classic 19th century homes.

Its unusual zigzag shape
has earned it the title

of being the crookedest
street in the world,

and on this most famous of
streets nestles something

very different from
its historic neighbors.

These shadowy cedar boards

mask an astonishing
piece of interior design.

This building is called
the Hidden House.

It is a home with a
split personality.

[siren wailing]

[lively music]

When owner Doug Smith
discovered the site,

there wasn't an
awful lot to see.

It was a one-story building

that had been here for the
better part of 80 years.

There was nothing redeeming,

it was certainly not
a historical landmark.

[Charlie] The
challenge for Doug

was to create a modern home
on a very confined plot.

[Doug] You've got the better
part of 3,000 square feet

of living space
squeezed into a box

that is framed by three houses,

and so it creates a great
architectural challenge.

[energizing music]

[Charlie] The Hidden House
covers 268 square meters

over three floors.

The top floor of this
extraordinary house

contains the master bedroom,

bathroom, and a private terrace.

On the first floor there's the
main open plan living space,

dining room, and kitchen.

And on the ground floor
there's an office,

guest bedroom, and bathroom.

[enthusiastic music]

Doug also needed
to make the house

blend into an area of much
loved traditional houses

without upsetting the very
close neighbors, not easy.

I think that the
architects knew that

if we were gonna get the
affection of the city,

in terms of their willingness
to accept us to build this,

we had to acknowledge
that it was being built

in San Francisco, so
that means bay windows.

If you look around, there's
bay windows everywhere.

[Charlie] The pared back
timber facade of this house

conceals a bright, innovative
and edgy design inside.

The first thing you
see when you come in

is all the angles.

There's a sharp,
angular set of stairs,

and the stairs themselves
are their own geometry.

And then as you look up,

you see the angles
coming from each floor,

and it really brings the eye
straight up to the skylight,

and that brings all the
light into the house.

[Charlie] The house has two
very clearly defined areas.

One side contains
the staircases,

and the other, all the
rooms for living in.

Color has been
used very cleverly

to separate these two zones.

The side of the house that
you transport yourself in

is the color side of the house,

so it's where color lives,
and that's its purpose.

[thoughtful music]

If you move to the other side
of the house where we live,

it's all materials, so
there's wood materials,

there's concrete, there's metal,

and there's the ceiling itself,
which is in its raw form.

[Charlie] This house
transforms those raw materials

to create a bright and
modern 21st century home

in this 19th century neighborhood.

On the ground floor is a
guest bedroom and a bathroom.

[light music]

Doug's office is
also on this level.

It's ingeniously designed to
open out onto a hidden space.

There may be many rooms
crammed onto this small plot,

but the home's clever layout

still leaves space for
a surprising garden.

It's best in the fall.

When the weather
comes and turns nice,

my office literally becomes
an outdoor living space.

It's great just
to be able to have

this incredibly private space,
it's very zen in its feeling.

[light music]

[Charlie] A metal
staircase leads up

to the Hidden
Home's first floor.

[Doug] This is the main
floor, which is where we live.

You've got a kitchen area,

a dining area and a living
area in the traditional sense,

but it's all just
one big open space.

[Charlie] Doug worked with
local architect Zoe Prillinger

to design this bijou yet
spacious family house

on this challenging plot.

The location is special,

and the site itself,
this property, is small, it's shallow.

We actually did the project

as a remodel of the
existing property,

and so the bones of
that old building

are within this building
on the first floor.

So this project
became a challenge

of how to create a
variety of spaces

within a fairly small footprint.

It's taking something
that's old or conventional

and doing something
that's refreshing with it,

so that's how it all started.

[Charlie] Zoe has expanded
the home's original footprint

to create light and
well proportioned rooms.

The slats that make up the
cedar facade of this house

were conceived to
hide the interior,

but they also allow
light through to all the floors inside.

They have an innovative design.

A unique joint allows the slats

to lie flat against
the house's facade.

At the point where the
slat touches the joint,

the connection allows
it to rotate 90 degrees

from vertical to horizontal.

This allows light
to stream through

to the rooms that lie behind.

It's a simple, yet
effective idea.

Above the main living
area on the top floor

lies the master bedroom.

[Doug] It's our bedroom,

it also opens you
up to the outdoors.

We have a sleeping area,

and then there's a beautiful
bathroom in the back.

[dynamic music]

[Charlie] The top floor
of this fascinating building

has one final trick
up its sleeve.

[mysterious music]

This is the secret passageway,

and this is the back
way into the roof.

[Charlie] Doug has
not one garden, but two.

[elevating music]

This is one of our
favorite places to be,

we're on top of the world here,

with a great, wonderful
view of San Francisco Bay

and Alcatraz and
the Golden Gate.

This is our place
to play and relax,

and really come to appreciate

what an amazing city we live in.

This is our space, this is
the special part of the house,

the wow factor
part of the house.

This is the place
where we get to

really bring San Francisco
into our our lives.

We're really happy
to be living here

and enjoying being
in San Francisco.

[Charlie] This
hugely ambitious house

is the perfect meeting
of old and new.

It's a jewel in San
Francisco's crown.

[siren wailing]

[adventurous music]

5,000 kilometers east, the
province of Nova Scotia

sits on the easterly
tip of Canada.

This remote location,

famous for its rugged
landscape and high tides,

is not for the faint-hearted.

It's a tough place to live,

so building a house here
comes with many challenges.

[waves crashing]

Perched on this rugged coastline

with breathtaking views
over the Atlantic Ocean

is this dramatic structure.

It's called the De Vries House.

The owner of this unusual
home is writer Peter De Vries,

and it's a house he has waited
for for a very long time.

I bought the land
about 18, 19 years ago.

I was looking for a
place for retirement,

I was living in
the US at the time.

I kept in touch with the
land for year and years

and finally, when I retired,

I finally decided yes,
it's time to do it.

[Charlie] Living
next to the sea

has always been a
dream for Peter.

I fell in love with
the ocean and the water.

What attracts me
most about the ocean

is the light and the movement,

the light is different here.

I don't mind stormy weather.

Sometimes there's too
much of it, of course,

you wish that every day was
sunny, but such is life.

This was affordable,

and so you put up with
the weather [laughs].

[industrious music]

[Charlie] The
frame of the house

is built from timber,
steel, and concrete.

It has a galvanized
steel outer shell

to protect it from the elements.

The building covers 204 square
meters across two floors.

On the top floor there's
a library, an office,

spare room, and bathroom.

And on the ground floor there's
a living space, kitchen,

dining area, and master
bedroom with en-suite.

[lighthearted music]

Peter worked with project
architect Will Perkins

to build this secret home.

I love this, I love this
view of the house right here.

- I do too.
- Yeah.

One of the best
things about our job

is designing these projects

and building them in your
head with the clients

and then seeing
them come to life,

so every project is
exciting in that way,

but working with
Peter was a treat.

This was my first
finished project

and I'm very proud of it, yeah.

[Charlie] This home's
wedge-shaped design

stands proudly on
the water's edge.

[Will] The
building is situated

so when you arrive
in the driveway,

you're presented with
the back of the building,

which is the north side.

[birds singing]

You enter into that
part of the building

and you're greeted
with this corridor

that's quite narrow
and quite tall.

[animated music]

And as you move through,
that's where you're presented

with this view of
the Atlantic Ocean.

A kind of secret
aspect of the building

that is not maybe obvious at
first, but has a real impact.

[reflective music]

[Charlie] When it
came to designing

the inside of his home,

Peter had a very
particular request.

The most important thing
that Peter brought to the table

was his incredible
collection of books.

That was something that we
attached ourselves to instantly

in terms of like an
exciting design challenge

and a unique story that
Peter brings to the project.

What I really like about
this space, first of all,

are these, the very
nicely designed bookcases,

is that it functions
as sort of a library,

two walls of books,

and then, of course,
the window on that side.

One of the things that
I asked the architect

was that there be no
bookcases in the living room,

so that there is an
area that is book-free,

that the whole house did not
become a monument to my books.

I mean, I love
books, but [laughs],

but I don't want to
be buried by them.

[flowing music]

[Charlie] Getting
the room sizes right

was another challenge.

Peter wanted his upstairs
library to be tall and imposing,

but the rest of
the living spaces

to be cozy with low ceilings.

The design of each room also
had to maximize the views.

[flowing music]

[brooding music]

Peter wanted his home to
sit on the cliff edge,

overlooking the sea.

Making it sturdy
enough to stand up

to the strong
winds and rain here

was a formidable
engineering challenge.

The vertical face of the house

takes the full force of
the North Atlantic winds.

Strong gusts could easily lift
the home off its foundations.

To guard against this,

a large timber frame runs
right through the house.

This frame connects to
steelwork, which in turn,

transfers the force of the
wind into concrete buttresses

hidden in the internal walls
that go deep underground.

This house, full of books,

has a small secret
upstairs in the library,

hidden away like something
from Alice in Wonderland.

So on the north
side of the house

in the floor-to-ceiling
bookshelves

we incorporated this door.

It almost feels like it's
part of the shelving unit,

and then you get this sort
of interesting experience

of being able to move
through this wall of books

into the second room here,

where you get a
view of the forest.

There's almost a secret kind
of hidden quality to this room

from the rest of the house.

[waves crashing]
[birds chirping]

[jaunty music]

[Charlie] It took
around 20 years

for Peter to finally get
to live in his dream home,

and it was well worth the wait.

I'm very proud of this
house, very proud of it,

and I love to show it.

There are two things that
made it a dream come true.

One is being on the ocean,

and two is to have an architect
actually build something

that was built, or
designed, with me in mind.

I can't imagine anyone
could appreciate the house

more than me, I love it.

[jaunty music]

[uplifting music]