The concrete mass lays half-sunken in the slope of Valle de Calamuchita, ending in a huge frame overlooking the planes, and a sudden sense of ambiguity is created, between the possibility of being in front of some environmental infrastructure, or a monument with some landscape vocation. Still, Reality comes forward quite quickly, in the guise of a program based on coexistence of structure and nature, of a terrain getting infrastructure by a holiday house program. In Casa FM, Alarcia and Ferrer get a clear control of different scales, ranging from the stories of home dwelling to higher or lower grades of opening towards the landscape.
Casa FM: between structure, landscape and stories of dwelling
In Argentina, Alarcia-Ferrer create an experiment of habitat integrating nature and artificial solutions in a holiday house.
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. Panoramic view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. Panoramic view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. Panoramic view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. Exterior view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. Exterior view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. Exterior view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. Exterior view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. Interior view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. Interior view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. View of the main loggia. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. View from the main loggia. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. Axonometric scheme. Courtesy Alarcia Ferrer Arquitectos
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. natural climate control schemes. Courtesy Alarcia Ferrer Arquitectos
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. Lower level plan. Courtesy Alarcia Ferrer Arquitectos
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa FM, Valle de Calamuchita, Argentina, 2016. Upper level plan. Courtesy Alarcia Ferrer Arquitectos
Joaquin Alarcia Federico Ferrer, Casa IA, La Calera, Argentina, 2015. Exterior view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia, Federico Ferrer, Casa IA, La Calera, Argentina, 2015. Interior view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia, Federico Ferrer, Casa IA, La Calera, Argentina, 2015. Interior view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia, Federico Ferrer, Casa IA, La Calera, Argentina, 2015. Interior view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia, Federico Ferrer, Casa IA, La Calera, Argentina, 2015. Interior view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia, Federico Ferrer, Casa IA, La Calera, Argentina, 2015. Exterior view. Photo: Federico Cairoli
Joaquin Alarcia, Federico Ferrer, Casa IA, La Calera, Argentina, 2015. Axonometric scheme. Courtesy Alarcia Ferrer Arquitectos
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- Giovanni Comoglio
- 22 March 2019
- Valle de Calamuchita, Cordoba, Argentina
- Joaquin Alarcia, Federico Ferrer
- 320 mq
- Vacation house
- 2016
Casa FM is split into two almost autonomous entities: a lower house establishing an intimate connection with the ground and the closest views, and an upper house opening to broader views on the lake and the surrounding slopes and mountains.
The spatial layout is clear, it opens the bedrooms towards an intermediate scale of landscape and a balanced natural lighting, and transforms the corridor into some linear scenery, regularly punctuated by patios — at one time an inhabitable part of the house and a structural component of the sculptorial built mass. the core of the entire system is the great loggia overlooking the valley, in a spatial continuity with the living room.
The idea of a piece of inhabitable landscape infrastructure, rather than an object imposing human life over nature, is consolidated by the use of materials featuring low maintenance requirements and granting a positive balance with the hosting environment. Such interaction with the ground as an orienting matrix has been sought quite often by Alarcia and Ferrer, who actually experimented this potential as a platform for a familiar interior in their Casa IA (Córdoba, 2015), developing around a large terraced living room in connection to an intimate inner garden.
- Casa FM
- Valle de Calamuchita, Córdoba, Argentina
- Joaquin Alarcia, Federico Ferrer Deheza
- German Serboraria (calcolo strutture), Julio Quiroz
- 2016
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos
Immagini e disegni da Casa FM e Casa IA, Alarcia-Ferrer arquitectos