THE ORIGIN
This place started as a retirement project for my aunt and her husband. They lived in Valparaíso and escaped to Catapilco on weekends to slowly build a place of their own.
Over time, life changed their plans. Their project came to a halt, and the possibility arose for someone to continue what they had started.
My father called to tell me about the situation. He said that, of his children, I was probably the one most likely to be drawn to a life like this. I came to see the place and found a small house in the middle of a thousand square metres of land — and a real possibility of building something beautiful.
Dasso is that dream.
The garden, the natural pool and many of the things that make up Dasso have appeared over time — not as isolated pieces but as part of the same idea: to keep building a place that feels lived-in, close and connected to its surroundings.
Like any real place, it keeps changing and finding its own shape.
This place started as a retirement project for my aunt and her husband. They lived in Valparaíso and escaped to Catapilco on weekends to slowly build a place of their own.
Over time, life changed their plans. Their project came to a halt, and the possibility arose for someone to continue what they had started.
My father called to tell me about the situation. He said that, of his children, I was probably the one most likely to be drawn to a life like this. I came to see the place and found a small house in the middle of a thousand square metres of land — and a real possibility of building something beautiful.
Dasso is that dream.
The garden, the natural pool and many of the things that make up Dasso have appeared over time — not as isolated pieces but as part of the same idea: to keep building a place that feels lived-in, close and connected to its surroundings.
Like any real place, it keeps changing and finding its own shape.
Dasso didn't begin with me.
THE HOST
I'm a Chilean carpenter, builder and traveller.
I've lived abroad, speak English without effort, and have always been curious about other ways of life.
I've built, designed and crafted things with my hands for as long as I can remember.
I'm deeply interested in how people live in different places—and in how we can live better with less.
Dasso didn't start as a tourism project. It began as a way of living.
Every piece here was chosen, built or restored with intention. Nothing is random.
When you stay at Dasso, you're not checking into a product. You're stepping into a real place that already existed before you arrived.
BEFORE YOU COME
Dasso runs on a different logic.
The bathrooms here are dry composting systems with liquid separation. They don't use water. They don't use chemicals.
For some, this sounds like a sacrifice. For us, it's just a more honest relationship with the basics. Water is scarce in this valley, and flushing it away with waste doesn't make sense anymore.
They work—and once you understand how, they make more sense than what you're used to. Every detail is designed to be clean, odorless, and completely integrated into the cycle of the place.
If this resonates with your way of living, you're exactly who we had in mind when we built our concept.
