树木周围的房子丨阿根廷丨otro estudio

Architects:otro estudio

Area:210m²

Year:2024

Photographs:Ramiro Sosa

Manufacturers:AD Aberturas,Acerma S.A,Alba S.A,Dante Culzoni Amoblamientos,Deckar Revestimientos Acrílicos,Don Pica Revestimientos,FERRUM S.A,FV S.A,Firenze Mármoles,Grupo Dema,ILVA S.A,Industrias Saladillo S.A,Johnson Acero - Hábitat Amoblamientos,LUOGO Galería,Menara Corralón S.A

Lead Architects:Pedro Frund, Cristian Perret, Mauro Williner

Category:Houses

Technical Team:Tomás Sola

Engineering And Consulting > Structural:Hernán Paravano

Landscape Architecture:Agrónoma Lucía Chiappero

Engineering And Consulting > Lighting:SIRC - Juan Carlos Piccione

General Construction:Cemento Base Constructora

Engineering And Consulting > Other:Pablo Culzoni – Soluciones para obras

City:Rafaela

Country:Argentina

Text description provided by the architects. An unusually described program by Pablo, a rich enumeration of atmospheres and sensations in which to dwell, a terrain still to be chosen from a possible list. Thus begins the commission for this house. Pablo envisioned diverse exteriors that manifested the temporality of the seasons of the year, of their domestic landscapes; exteriors possible to be seen from the different spaces of the house. Living should be a spatial, sensory experience of discovery.

On the site still stood a somewhat deteriorated house, but what truly caught our attention was a handful of mature trees that spoke of what had once been a patio lived intensely. Those beings conveyed an intrinsic spatiality, they were trees and everything that emanated from them. The sensation was immediate, that was the place. The commission transformed for us into capturing those atmospheres that already existed there, making them evident.

In particular, a tree, with a somewhat lateral central location on the property, cast a shadow that was both defined and somewhat permeable. Around the shaded and fragrant crown at the beginning of spring of that little aroma (Acacia caven) the house would be structured. The house unfolds, facets, and articulates around the tree, organizing a sector of social areas, another sector of services in two floors, which also allows for wandering, observing from above, and finally a sector that gathers the private rooms.

The relationships constructed in this work around the concept of house-tree reflect on the cohabitation between the human and natural facts, in other words, on how to inhabit the landscape. The uniqueness of the pre-existing trees is valued not only for their age or their plastic quality but for their ability to testify to a biological and organic order that refers us to nature. The contribution of the temporal and cyclical dimension in contrast to the permanence of architecture. The trees are incorporated into the construction of a nearby landscape, in a generous spatial continuity making the exterior a participant in the everyday scene and the experience of inhabiting. A domesticated landscape that returns us to nature in each of the proposed and emerging connections.

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