Front View
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Staircase
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Staricase from First Floor
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Entrance Views
Backyard Area
Backyard Area
Render
Side View
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Entrance View from Inside
Entrance
House Entrance
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Implantation
Ground Floor
Axonometric View
Drawing
View
Section
Backyard Area
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Memory
The houses are located in a gated community in the town of Tristán Suárez.
On a shared 800 m² plot, two brothers decided to build identical weekend homes that would share a single garden. By aligning the perimeter walls with the maximum buildable limits established by the neighborhood regulations, we sought to optimize the construction area. This approach defined the morphology of the house as a perfect two-story cube.
The volume is positioned on the site to encourage a sense of inwardness and minimize its presence from the outside. The construction was reduced to its essentials, using almost a single material throughout and avoiding any expression of the life unfolding within. Still, it felt essential to preserve a strong connection with nature and the outdoor space. To achieve this, we perforated the structure, introducing a series of openings that allow for diverse relationships with the surrounding landscape.
The design incorporates two open-air courtyards that function as entrances, help break down the density of the plan, and define the public areas of the house—turning them into spaces framed between two exterior voids: the patios and the shared garden at the back of the site.
An exposed concrete perimeter wall was built to frame and control views toward the surrounding environment. This solid volume gradually dematerializes in the rear façade, the only face that opens onto an open green space shared by the private garden and a landscaped strip that marks the edge of the neighborhood.
Each home has an independent entrance through one of the private courtyards, which, visually separated from the street, act as a buffer between the exterior and the domestic interior.
Inside, the layout mediates between a more public and a more intimate dimension, allowing for different forms of gathering in the shared living spaces. As a result, the entire service program was pushed to the outer perimeter. Within this hollowed-out mass are the kitchen, bathrooms, storage, vertical circulation, and an interior balcony.
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Project Team
Arch. Florencia Lopez Iriquin
Arq. Juliana de Lojo
Arch. Daniel Zelcer
Collaborators
Landscape: Maria Mulieri
Structure: Eng. Cesar Tocker
Sanitary Facilities: Antonio Cristiano