TEXT

The site is located in a low density residential area on the outskirts of Rosario city. On one side has a row of aged cypress trees. The access is situated alongside these trees. The programmatic requirements and site’s constraints led to reworking the typology of house-yard, whose diagram of cloister is modified in order to:

1. access to the house through the courtyard.
2. generate an opened veranda towards the garden and the north.
3. locate a room with a differentiated entrance upstairs.
4. allocate a service volume for the pool.

Inside, the various domestic areas and their circulation develop linearly around the courtyard. The openings run along the entire perimeter of the house according to the program’s needs, and at times align to create continuous views toward the garden. Movable phenolic multi-laminate panels provide the house with blackout and security. Depending on the position of these panels, the character of the house shifts continuously. A single-coat elastic render was used — continuous, white, textured, with a faint greenish tint — unifying all interior and exterior surfaces.

DISTINCTIONS

– Distinguished Award at the I Bienal Internacional de Arquitectura Argentina (BIAAR) 2014

– Selected fot the Bienal Award at the XV Bienal Internacional de Buenos Aires. Argentina, 2015

TEAM

Diego Arraigada, Pablo Gamba (asociado), Lucia Landucci, Ruxandra Stroe, Maria José Tasada

CONSULTANTS

Ing. Vanesa Vernaschi, Ing. Joel Schnitman

CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

CyK ICSA

FLOOR AREA

260 m2

PHOTOS

Gustavo Frittegotto