Argentinian architect Malvina Zayat has accomplished a white home for herself and her household, which is raised above a sloping plot of land and enters into an “intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds”.
The residence is in a local forest within the city of Salsipuedes, which is about 30 kilometers from town of Córdoba.
Zayat – founding father of native agency Malvina Zayat Structure Studio – lives there together with her husband and two kids.
Accessed through a cobblestone road, the house is perched on a hilly property with expansive panorama views. The constructing is raised and rendered in white, serving to “to ascertain an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds”.
“Situated within the central sector of the land, with its lengthy aspect dealing with north, it seems as a white prism, levitating over the mountain and disappearing into the clouds,” stated the structure studio.
In an oblong plan, the home is raised by metal helps. On the west finish, the constructing floats three.5 meters above a sheltered parking space.
The vast majority of the structural system consists of prefabricated steel elements which were assembled on web site.
The muse and ground slab are concrete – a choice knowledgeable by “the necessity to accumulate warmth within the mass of the slab when the winter solar enters the inside house from the north.”
The facades are fabricated from white painted steel and stretches of glass. The entrance elevation has an extended deck, or gallery, lined with folding steel screens.
“A collapsible panel system moderates gallery winds and filters the solar's entry from the west through the summer season,” the group stated.
“On the identical time, it ensures the safety of the house when its customers should not there.”
From the parking space, a suspended staircase takes guests as much as the deck. From right here you enter the home via a sliding picket door.
The final entry sequence is “an expertise that begins in touch with the bottom and ends within the air.”
Inside, one finds a linear plan with a typical house at one finish of the house and a personal two-bedroom space occupying the opposite.
Between the 2 areas is a service island that’s ventilated and lit from above. Water is provided by rainwater which is saved in cisterns underneath the home.
Your entire south aspect of the inside is lined with a storage unit that addresses useful wants whereas including thickness to the constructing envelope. The north and west sides open outwards, giving a way of growth.
The restricted materials palette consists of concrete flooring with a vinyl end and Brazilian granite for the kitchen counters. Eucalyptus plywood was used for partitions, ceilings, doorways and built-in furnishings.
“The incidence of sunshine on the vermilion-colored wooden paneling generates a scenic spatial expertise that culminates within the coronary heart of the house: the social space, in whole communion with the mountains,” stated the group.
Córdoba is the capital of the Argentine province of the identical identify. Different tasks within the area embody an remoted home by Nicolás Barrionuevo and Juan Villanueva, which has operable picket screens, and a concrete and stone home by Nanzer + Vitas, which is supposed to resemble a medieval village.
The photograph is by Gonzalo Viramonte.
Venture credit:
Architect: Malvina Zayat structure studio
Design Crew: Malvina Zayat, Natalia Lucía Ruiz Venicio
Structural calculation: Edgar Moran