Pingüino House is a vacation residence conceived to offer a variety of leisure activities in the tourist town of Cariló, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Conversations with the clients focused on the type of activities done in a summer house rather than on a preconceived architectural form.
Project name
Pingüino House (Casa Pingüino)
Architecture firm
Estudio Galera Arquitectura
Location
Cariló, Pinamar County, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photography
Javier Agustín Rojas
Design team
Ariel Galera, Cesar Amarante, Francisco Villamil, Luisina Noya
Collaborators
Soledad Van Schaik, Juan Cruz Ance, Facundo Casales, Juan Cardoso Lopes, Tomas Molinaro. Administration management: Verónica Coleman.Texts and translation: Soledad Pereyra. Surveyor: Claudio y Juan Pablo D eramo. Roof: Bauer Hermanos. Electricity: Gabriel Jaimón. Sanitation / Heating: Cristian Carrizo. Ducts and sheet metal: Rubén Calvo. Custom metal working: Hernan / Juan Rascione. Decks: Gwez Obras. Wood millwork: El Holandés. Aluminum millwork: Alumia. Concrete supplier: Pasalto. Iron: Acindar / Casa Caligari. Iron Sheets: Plastigas. Wood Supplier: SAB. Coarse agregate: Casa Caligari. Sanitary material: Mastergas. Paint: Sagitario. Marble: LAVIGE
Structural engineer
Juan Pablo Busti
Supervision
Pablo Ahumada. MMO
Material
Concrete, Metal, Glass, Wood
Typology
Residential › House
Fragata house was designed in 2017 and built between that year and 2021 in Alamos neighborhood, northwest Pinamar. During the pandemic, the house was the only one on the block in a neighborhood that was developing at a lethargic pace, but which was shortly surrounded by several works -some even inhabited before Fragata House. This area continues to...
Project name
Fragata House (Casa Fragata)
Architecture firm
Estudio Galera Arquitectura
Location
Pinamar, Partido de Pinamar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photography
Javier Agustín Rojas
Design team
Ariel Galera, Cesar Amarante, Francisco Villamil
Collaborators
Project supervisor: Pablo Ahumada. MMO; Administration management: Verónica Coleman; Texts and translation: Soledad Pereyra; Ducts and sheet metal: Rubén Calvo; Custom metal working: Juan Rascione; Masonry: Hugo Marin; Surveyor: Claudio and Juan Pablo D eramo
Structural engineer
Javier Mendía
Environmental & MEP
Electricity: Gabriel Jaimón. Sanitation / Heating: Cristian Carrizo
Construction
Facundo Panadero
Typology
Residential › House
Rita is No. 2 in a series of organic houses, such as Chloé, Borja and Filippa. All with the same objective, to develop an exercise that lies in materializing and repeating a set of project operations that in the studio we call "Housing Manifesto".
Project name
Rita House (Casa Rita)
Architecture firm
Estudio Fernandez Renati
Location
Club de Campo los Pingüinos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photography
Javier Agustín Rojas
Principal architect
Alejo Fernandez
Collaborators
Héctor Fernandez Renati, Gimena Caffo
Built area
Covered area: 692 m². Semicovered area: 453 m²
Material
Concrete, brick, wood, glass, metal
Typology
Residential › House
