别墅丨阿根廷科尔多瓦丨Barella Arquitectura

Architects:Barella Arquitectura

Area:448m²

Year:2025

Photographs:Rogert Berta

Manufacturers:Aluminios del Interior,Ferrocons,Feyro,Maestre Iluminación,Nanzer Climatización Integral

Category:Houses

Architects And Lead Architects:Marcelo José Barella, Inés Barella, Leandro Sosa

Technical Team:María Agustina Sánchez, Sofía Rodeyro

Engineering And Consulting > Structural:Gustavo González, Gabriela Asís Ferri

Landscape Architecture:Sofía Corazza, Héctor Tarifa

Interior Design:Barella Arquitectura

City:Córdoba

Country:Argentina

Text description provided by the architects. The program addresses the use of a family that lived in an apartment in Buenos Aires and decided to move to Córdoba during the pandemic. The land is located on the outskirts, in a gated community, in the southwest of the city, covering an area of 1500 m2, with a slight negative slope and a north-facing front. The house is designed with a clear functional distribution that manifests in the volumetric composition. One block for services, another for social areas, and another for private spaces, which are arranged in a "U" shape that surrounds a courtyard through which one enters.

This scheme allows for an adequate relationship between the function and orientation of each of the spaces. The block of bedrooms is oriented towards the east, receiving morning sunlight, the service block faces west, and the social space has double frontage. This social space, comprising the living room, dining room, and kitchen, opens to the north through a double-height window, connecting with the entrance courtyard, thereby allowing for optimal sunlight exposure, while to the south, it is completely integrated with the gallery. Having a strong and direct connection with the outdoors, with greenery, is part of our culture, and it is always a premise in our projects.

We put a lot of work into these intermediate spaces (galleries), which are the shaded areas, the cool spaces, where the boundaries between the interior and exterior blur and begin to flow together.

A recurring theme that we work with extensively is the concept of threshold, understanding it as the transition, the passage from one place to another. In this project, we extend the threshold of the main entrance of the house by creating a "promenade" that delineates the public from the private and invites reflection and presence. In the pursuit of a continuous and fluid spatiality, we considered the experience of the journey to the home, where we also incorporated water as a symbolic and vital element. The goal is for the act of entering to represent a conscious process, assigning a particular moment to both welcomes and farewells, which are considered significant events in the experience of inhabiting.

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