S+J House | Luciano Kruk

Описание: S+J House | Luciano Kruk


HOUSES•BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
Architects: Luciano Kruk
Area: 189 m²
Year: 2016
Photographs: Daniela Mac Adden
Manufacturers: Nivel, Barugel azulay, Blainstein, FV, Fábrica de
Luz, Pasalto, Persico 4753-4008, Tromen, Vidal aberturas
Other Participants:Belén Ferrand, Andrés Conde Blanco, Darío

Cecilian
City:Buenos Aires
Country:Argentina


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.

The commission consisted of a recreation house built entirely out of

exposed concrete, with minimalist interior spaces and little

maintenance requirements. The brief included two en suite bedrooms

with their own closets and two cabin-like minimum rooms sharing a

bathroom. So as to make the social area the most important place in

the house, an external expansion was requested. Also, the client

asked for a closed space for beach vehicles and a semi covered area

parking lot. Special emphasis was laid on the need to establish a

fluid relation between the inner spaces and the exterior, which

would allow a closer experience of the forest.

In order to preserve the native vegetation, the house was set

longitudinally and the setback on the front and the sides was

expanded beyond the minimum required by code. By so doing, the house

ended up surrounded by pines.

Following regulating lines, an orthogonal grid organizes the house’s

structure and space.

The house is arranged in two staggered platforms disposed at half-

height and connected through smoothly sloped ramp-like stairs and an

empty space in which the pine forest becomes a part of the house.

At half-height of the entrance level and set on the natural terrain,

the platform at the back houses the social area, which opens into a

terrace overlooking the golf court behind the plot of land.

Half a level above the social area, the bedrooms’ platform rises on

the front, underpinned by a prism lodging service and storing areas.

Aiming at centering the loads to the smallest space possible, this

supporting volume was set back and reduced to its minimum as an

attempt at once to enhance the feeling that the upper box is

floating and to take advantage of the semi covered space on the

natural terrain as the parking area the clients had requested.

The glazed bridges connecting both platforms traverse the void space

through a pines-surrounded promenade upon which light falls from the

rooftop and drips through the tree branches. In this way, the

forest’s vital energy is introduced into the house.

While both the exterior shell and the inner partitions are made of

exposed concrete, the floors are made of smooth concrete. In order

to emphasize the openings without confronting this material’s stony

essence, dark bronze anodized aluminum was used in the framings.

In an elementary architectural scheme—synthesized in two platforms

connected by bridges and green patios—a continuum stripe made of

concrete swathes the whole house, thus producing a single volume,

composed of void and filled areas, that at once shelters the

interior space from the outside view and preserves its intimacy

without dissociating the house from the nature around.

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