A corner lot in a gated community founded in 1968 with significant initial afforestation, to which the years have added incalculable value. Different species of trees and shrubs combined give landscape value to the place throughout the year.
The lot to intervene is furrowed by a row of large oaks and varied species on one of its fronts and on the adjacent lots.
The commission
A house for permanent use with the special requirement that it make it possible to live intensely the relationship between the interior spaces and the exterior so appreciated by the clients. Another request expressed was that, although they were interested in a house built with exposed concrete, they wanted the presence of wood to break up that monochromatic expression.
Regarding the programmatic needs, the house had to have four bedrooms, one on the ground floor and one with a bathroom and integrated dressing room, a spacious living room with a fireplace, and a space for intense family life that integrated the dining room, kitchen, and living room. intimate. It should also have a large gallery with a grill, places to eat and be outdoors, a swimming pool and space to park three cars.
The proposal
As interested as the principals in the landscape environment, we decided that the project should not only preserve the existing trees on the lot, but that vegetation would be the first and fundamental data to start the project.
We then thought that the house should be developed by accommodating itself in the free holes left by the trees and wrapping them to make them part of the proposed spaces.
To achieve this, we decided to work with a spatial grid of 3.80m on each side, double or single height depending on the case, which would allow us to solve the different environments and also the gaps that the trees let through.
In relation to the materiality requirements of the clients, we decided that the ground floor of the house, and its extension in the semi-covered spaces, would be resolved with concrete partitions facing the public space. These form a continuous plinth that is perforated more or less according to the needs of the environments it defines and on which a lighter structure of metal profiles and panels with minimal openings towards the streets and with an external finish of wooden boards rests. On the contrary, towards the interior and surrounding the oaks, the house is completely open, so that each room participates in the surrounding environment and in the landscape.
Project name: ARANZAZU House
Architects: Besonias Almeida Arquitectos – http://www.besoniasalmeida.com/
Location: Tortuguitas, Argentina
Area: 264 m²
Year: 2017
Photographer: Federico Kulekdjian – http://www.fedeku.com.ar/
Project And Direction: María Victoria Besonías, Guillermo de Almeida
Collaborating Architects: Micaela Salibe, Diorella Fortunati, Guido Galluppo
Land Surface: 677 m2
Text: María Victoria Besonías
Inner Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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