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Octava Estudio Cba designs Terrazas de la Villa Residence in Villa Allende, Cordoba, Argentina

Project name:
Vivienda Terrazas de la Villa
Architecture firm:
Octava Estudio Cba
Location:
Villa Allende, Cordoba, Argentina
Photography:
Gonzalo Viramonte
Principal architect:
Cazorla Facundo, Luna Carlos
Design team:
Cazorla Facundo, Luna Carlos
Collaborators:
Octava Estudio Cba
Interior design:
Built area:
274 m²
Site area:
600 m²
Design year:
2021
Completion year:
2022
Civil engineer:
Structural engineer:
Perrote Jorge
Environmental & MEP:
Octava Estudio Cba
Landscape:
Octava Estudio Cba
Lighting:
Octava Estudio Cba
Supervision:
Octava Estudio Cba
Visualization:
Octava Estudio Cba
Tools used:
Lumion, Adobe Photoshop
Construction:
Vía húmeda
Material:
Concrete, Wood, Glass, Steel
Budget:
$ 70000 USD
Client:
Private
Status:
Built
Typology:
Residential › House

Octava Estudio Cba: The House Terrazas is a single-family home, located in one of the closest place to the mountains in the City of Villa Allende, Cordoba. Thought for a 4 member’s family, a young couple with two little sons.

Respectful Implantation

The implantation responds to the topography of the place where it lays. The land slopes from West to East with interesting views of the City and an imposing presence of autochthonous vegetation. The studied location of the windows and lucernes, together with the use of filters and moving layers generate that the natural light becomes protagonist at the different timetable of the day and seasons of the year.

Volumetric and Functional Simplicity

The starting idea takes the natural slope with its irregularities and develops in two volumes that make clear their function.

A ground floor for the parking car, machines room and a pedestrian entrance. A main volume in a direct connection situation with the exterior, where all the social activities take place. And a top floor for the private zones of the program of the house. All together proposes a domestic habitat in dialogue with the topographic accident.

 Materiality

The careful choice of its materials looks forward not to recreate ostentations neither to appeal to the use of ornaments. As a result, its materiality was thought trying to accomplish a cohesive image to the owner’s criteria. The house was built with a traditional system of masonry ceramic bricks and stone cladding, joist slab and polystyrene bricks, suspended ceiling of plaster rock plates, aluminum windows and double hermetic glass. The shutters and doors are made of plate and pipe.

 


By Liliana Alvarez

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