丨阿根廷丨Matías Cosenza Arquitecto

Architects:Matías Cosenza Arquitecto

Area:150m²

Year:2025

Photographs:Bruto Studio

Manufacturers:FV,ferrum

Lead Architect:Matías Cosenza

Category:Cabins & Lodges

Team Lead:Felipe Trinchin Borneo

Technical Team:Jose Luis Rodriguez

Landscape Architecture:Gaston Cleiman

City:Dique Luján

Country:Argentina

Text description provided by the architects. At the untamed confluence of the Paraná River and the Uruguay River, where the waters flow into the vast Río de la Plata, a singular commission is established. The landscape, a symphony of wetlands and scattered jungle green, evokes the unknown: a primordial nature accessible only by waterway and living under the constant threat of floods. Here, architecture does not seek to disappear but to assert itself; not to go unnoticed, but to engage in dialogue with the organic power of the place.

A system of stilts is chosen, an ancestral solution proven by humanity in similar environments, but here reinvented as a tectonic statement. This matrix of industrialized poles, treated as a unified whole, accommodates domestic uses, forging a unique system. It is a human expression that merges artificial elements and transformed natural resources with the immensity of the environment, establishing a profound material relationship between the built and the wild. The convention of a stereotypical base that supports a box from below is abandoned in favor of a structure that rises, light and rooted at the same time, within the base instead of on top of it.

The system is governed by a strict modulation of 1.22 m (4 feet), materialized in sections of wood from Eucalyptus rostrata, a foreign species adapted to the region. Its design facilitates transport and on-site assembly through fittings that maximize strength.

At the same time, an experiment is conducted with a humanized form: two fundamental cubes connected by one of their edges. This sort of artificial forest, erected from the stilts as a formal expression, becomes the known place: a deliberate presence that poses before the untamed vastness of nature.

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