Argentina. An ever-evolving modular house

The building designed by Estudio Relativo is an aggregation of cells, programmatically open to modification, growth and dispersion.

In the Argentinian city of Santa Fe, Estudio relativo has built a 250 sqm single-family house for a young couple. While Casa Incompleta is now being used as a residence, the building has been programmatically conceived as an aggregation of units open to a permanent process of adaptation, as if it was a living organism. The building is an investigation on the informal, defined as a antagonistic relationship between the spaces and theirs use.

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Estudio Relativo, Casa Incompleta, elevations and plan
Estudio Relativo, Casa Incompleta, study of units aggregation
Estudio Relativo, Casa Incompleta, study of the functions in time

The structural and spatial layout is defined by cellular units of different sizes randomly aggregated in space. Each unit appears as a white prism with sloped roofs. The elevations appear as an alternation of solid and perforated walls, where the second type of surface works as a filter towards the outside garden. The units are connected one by one, defining a chained succession of rooms.

  • Casa Incompleta
  • Santo Tomé, Santa Fe, Argentina
  • single-family house
  • Estudio Relativo
  • Cecilia Rossini, Guido Hernandez
  • Fernando Nieva, Angelina Romero, Federico Gigante
  • 250 sqm
  • 2018