These two cabins for temporary rental are placed on flat terrain close to the South Atlantic Ocean in Chapadmalal, Argentina. Their location considers exposure to sunlight as the interior expands into the exterior. Two small-scale horizontal volumes contrast with a vertical one acting as a long-distance landmark for the whole.
Within a compact and well-defined perimeter, white, abstract, and stereotomic volumes contain the cabins’ interior and exterior spaces. Their limits are built with a single material, regulating permeability and adjusting to orientation and uses.
The work is located on the southern edge of downtown Buenos Aires, in Barracas neighborhood, within the arts district, on the border with the neighborhoods of San Telmo, and Constitución. The zoning in the current urban planning code is APH 1 14.
The existing house is before 1920, according to “Aguas Argentinas” plan dated August 4, 1920.
This house was born with the aim of being a place to be outdoors.
The fundamental characteristic of the neighborhood was its flood condition, being part of the Paraná river delta, this meant the need to raise it.
With these conditions and being a land bounded in dimensions, the challenge was to have the largest amount of space on the ground floor for social areas.
The existence of a waterway in the background generated the premise of guiding the main visuals in that regard.
This weekend house its develops in in a private housing complex in the city of Gonnet, Buenos Aires; with the particularity that one section opens to the private street of the complex, and the other one to a main avenue of the city. The owner´s idea was to create a reunion space as the main area of the house, so that the family could spend time with friends, adding a master bedroom in the upper floor.
From of the premise of blocking the access from the public street and create one from the interior of the complex, the architects propose a rectangular volume through the longitudinal section, finding the best visuals and sun orientation. The main space is created by a multi-functional floor plan, connected both to the exterior and to the first floor, making it possible to different uses. To maximize the site, a double height space is created, covering an interior and exterior part of the house and making a bigger and intensifying relation between them.
“House in the hill” is a family house located in the town of Sinsacate, about 55 km away from the city of Cordoba.
It sits on the Camino Real, an old area for the exchange of horses and rest for travelers who were heading to Upper Peru in times of the Viceroyalty of the “Río de la Plata”. Over the years it began to be used by some families of Cordoba for their rest during the summer months.
The land where the house is implanted presents a natural elevation generating a podium where the house is placed in a sculptural way and they grant exceptional visuals from inside.
At about 260 sq meters (2800 sq ft) the house raises two stories in a triangular piece of ground, located in a private neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The architectural design and organization of the house, consisted in overlapping two parallel volumes one above the other, slightly displaced, articulating in the intersection the heart for the house, where the daytime activities are served.
It is a horizontally built apartment building on a confined plot of land in the city of Santa Fe, located at the intersection between the streets Pasaje Maipú and the north-east corner of Calle Urquiza. The built volume lies on the south and west medians, freeing the corner to configure a square with trees, functioning as an entry for pedestrians and vehicles.
S+J House is located in the seaside neighborhood Costa Esmeralda, a private development 13 km north of the city of Pinamar and four hours away from Buenos Aires city.
Despite being almost plain, the plot of land slopes softly towards its back. As the Studio proposed to preserve the lot’s dense pine grove, only the trees on the construction site were removed in order to build the house.
The client, a group of two families, requested a house that could lodge both at the same time and that could be rented out.
It could not be otherwise, it had to be the project’s star.
We think of a house that accompanies, without competing.
We work with the orientations and the location of the tree to connect them and ensure that they live respecting and empowering each other.
A harmonic volume, all on the ground floor. The facade with simple morphologies and contrasts of materialities.
The idea was always to highlight the carob tree, but we could not leave it alone, so we combine materials and refine the details in each element that made up this composition.
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