III BIENNIAL OF LATIN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. Pamplona, ​​Spain. House in Manantiales

In a plot on the corner facing the Atlantic Ocean, the position of future neighboring constructions determines an angle within which the view of the sea is uninterrupted. This condition determines the basic strategy of the project and the house transforms itself into the framing of the landscape of the sea horizon by means of a configuration in two wings whose opening angle coincides with the visual angle free of obstacles. From an access located at its vertex, the environments develop linearly to each side and the main openings are oriented towards the angle contained by the house. In the space between both wings there is a large outdoor living terrace protected from the wind. From it you can only see the landscape and fragments of the house itself. From the coast, the character of the house is related to the immensity of the sea. Towards the town, however, it has a domestic scale and a certain iconography of the beach sheds. The constructive strategy is conditioned by the need to optimize resources. The choice of wood from the extensive Uruguayan afforestation of pine and eucalyptus as basic construction material responds to the desire to reduce costs and times through modulated prefabrication, as well as using materials of sustainable origin. On the outside, it is covered with an insulating and corrosion-resistant sheet of vegetable fibers.