Concrete, Wood & Glass House Combines Modernism & Simplicity With Sustainable Materials

Описание: Pilará House is located in the Country Club a few minutes away from Pilar. It is a large rural urbanization, developed on former farmland in the Pampa plain of Buenos Aires. The main landscape feature of the neighborhood is the gently rolling meadows, planted with various species of native trees and shrubs, accompanying the layout of the urbanization. The house occupies an irregularly shaped corner lot with a gentle elevation against the surrounding streets. The sidewalks are planted with species of catalpa and young maple.

His clients, a young couple without children, wanted a house developed entirely on the first floor like a country house, they said-, although without repeating its classic typology, because they were interested in the complex spatiality of the various houses built by the owners of the studio.

They also wanted spacious verandas and a swimming pool in contact with the landscape projection, which they imagined, in full harmony with the natural landscape of the Pampean plain. As a special requirement, they requested that some rooms in the house stand out by having a higher height than standard.

A master bedroom with bathroom and large dressing room, two guest bedrooms with bathrooms for shared use, a spacious social area with integrated kitchen and, connected to it, a laundry room and maid's room. A “refuge” (a space named by them) next to the dining room for “lying down” resting, reading or watching TV, with a large bunk bed as the main fixture. A covered garage for two vehicles and two open spaces for visitor parking.

The house is conceived as a single volume which, occupying the entire silhouette allowed by the building regulations, will be arranged according to an orthogonal grid that allows it to be penetrated towards its interior, giving rise to the creation of courtyards of different scales according to the requirements of use and the atmosphere of the activities programmed in them. These courtyards serve to communicate spaces and isolate them from each other, but above all, their purpose is to create a landscape from the architecture itself, so that living in this house is an experience in which the boundaries between inside and outside are weakened in order to enjoy the climate that allows it, and also the contact with a landscape designed with native vegetation that is ever-changing throughout the year.

From the outside, the house is closed on three sides with partitions made of quebracho wood planks in a vertical position that filter the view from both streets and from the neighboring properties, achieving privacy in all rooms and controlling the incidence of sunlight in various orientations. . The facade of the back of the house is fully open through large windows and a spacious gallery with pergola.

To overcome the necessary height difference between rooms without being visible from the outside, which would weaken the single-volume proposal, it was decided that the social areas of the house and the entrance hall would be extraordinary rooms with a height of 3.05 meters. 3.05 meters. The bedroom area was designed with a free height of 2.60m, raising the floor to 0.45m above the entrance level, bridging the difference with a gentle ramp that opens up once one enters the house. This space is not just for circulation, but one of its open sides with large windows allows for a view of the layout and vegetation of the main courtyard, and ends with a small garden allowing views of the surroundings and providing pauses to change the direction of circulation. The garden, isolating the master bedroom area from the guest bedrooms.

Returning to the front hall, once one passes through the door, it becomes clear that the social area of the house is conceived as a series of enclosed and open spaces that communicate with each other and whose essence is discovered as one moves through them. . Deliberately avoiding understanding the totality of the work at a glance, in order to arouse interest in recognizing the qualities of each projected space.


Project name: CASA PILARÁ
Architect: Besonias Almeida Arquitectos - https://www.besoniasalmeida.com/portf...
Location: Pilar, Argentina
Area: 288 m²
Year: 2021
Photo: Federico Kulekdjian - http://www.fedeku.com.ar/
Design Team: María Victoria Besonías, Guillermo de Almeida
Collaborators: Micaela Salibe, Hernán de Almeida