Argentinian observe Patio Estudio has accomplished a concrete and stone residence within the metropolis of Córdoba that options dwelling areas organized round a checkerboard of 11 planted patios.
Casa Mono was designed for a pair who wished a personal, “introverted” retreat that additionally had a powerful connection to the outside.
Patio Estudio barely raised the house utilizing soil from the positioning to permit it to miss its environment, with views framed by a concrete envelope that mirrors the checkerboard association of the house’s personal patios.
A winding ramp on the entrance of the house leads as much as the dwelling areas, the place a central hall connects the bedrooms at one finish to the dwelling, eating and kitchen area on the different.
“It was essential to create a promenade via the home to have the ability to rise slowly and thus be capable to see the mountain panorama,” Patio Estudio advised Dezeen.
This plan is predicated on a grid that has been separated into 9 “stable” volumes and 11 “empty” patio volumes, permitting every dwelling area to look out onto a minimum of one patio.
These patios have been designed to enrich the dwelling areas, reminiscent of making a paved exterior space for the lounge to increase onto, or densely planted areas that convey nature into the bedrooms.
“The patio is the factor that separates and connects the totally different capabilities of the home,” stated the studio.
“It’s used to increase the amount on the bottom, producing complementary areas that permit an inside/exterior hyperlink, taking the surface as a part of the within, perceiving it as one other a part of the home.”
Under, the bottom flooring has been designed as an entertaining area that may be accessed through a devoted staircase on the rear of the house, with a big terrace for internet hosting barbecues, a swimming pool and a volleyball court docket.
The skinny concrete envelope that wraps the house is configured to create moments of various privateness and light-weight all through the interiors, and is topped by a flat roof that additionally contains a checkerboard of openings.
“The concrete pores and skin that envelops the home configures intimacy, win safety and visible orientation, and likewise generates intimate patios, solar safety, galleries and balconies,” stated the studio.
Behind this envelope are partitions constructed from regionally quarried stone, which have been left uncovered in areas of the inside.
The “chilly and rustic” supplies reminiscent of concrete and stone have been set towards hotter areas of wooden, as seen in the lounge the place two picket window seats are positioned both facet of a stone hearth.
Different tasks in Argentina embrace a concrete vacation residence by Estudio Galera and a housing scheme clad with pink brick by BBOA.
The images is by Gonzalo Viramonte.