The arrival at a house is always an opportunity to “celebrate the access”. In this case, with two “tropical” courtyards, a hall is caught between these two gaps articulating as well as separating the living area from the sleeping area. Both provide light and vegetation, freshness … melting the interior space with the exterior. The sleeping area required to sit on an almost blind block, in direct contact with the land, at level. A metal “skin” made out of microperforated sheet metal shutters serve as sun protection while closing the entire facade as a security system. In the daily use area – the living quarters area – the house raises half a level to bury the service area, garage, and gain longer visuals towards the garden. In this way, the site slopes down and away from this part of the house towards a pool and terraced gardens.
Noble materials, with their own texture and color, their own brightness, transparency, give a neutral palette that accompanies all the custom-designed furnishings created entirely by the firm. An independent reinforced concrete structure combined with metal columns, is the perfect ally to separate the structure from the enclosures and achieve the large overhang that covers the gallery blurring the line that separates the living-dining room from the outside, offering a smooth continuity towards the garden.
Project name: BT Tropical House
Architects: Estudio Jorgelina Tortorici Arq. – http://www.jorgelinatortoriciarq.com/
Location: Adrogue, Argentina
Area: 411 m²
Year: 2017
Photographer: Alejandro Peral – http://www.alejandroperal.com/
Manufacturers: Cosentino, Hansgrohe, Barugel, Carpeal
Lead Architect: Nicolas Lanza, Jorgelina Tortorici
Inner Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
#concretehouse #housedesign #tropicalgarden