In this house, located in the city of Balcarce, we had two main objectives. The first one: to frame the mountain “La Barrosa”, which is the centerpiece of the place because of its size and closeness to the land. The second one: to occupy the lineal 16 meters at the front of the land so that the minimum required program, 88 covered square meters, does not negatively determine the image of the house at the moment of its implementation.

To achieve the first objective, we designed a V-shaped roof detached from the wall structure to get a greater perspective from the interior towards the views. The walls were spontaneously sketched, lowered, raised, cut back depending on privacy needs, sun, landscape… reaching its limit point in the corner of the living-dining room, where roof and walls give us the great opening towards the object we want to see.

For the second objective, we made the decision to use the whole width of the land with this shape of defined image and to make it rest on both party walls, which gives protection and shadow in the social areas. The volume that comes out of its domain is the bedroom which moves towards the yard in a lower level; an interior wood shutter siding makes possible its complete darkening.

It is a house with pure forms, with lines that run over it, completely white, which plays a game of opposites, in black and white, with the old and intense grey granite mountain. Honorable Mention.