Design firm: Laura Marino, Julia Yako
Project name: Eucalyptus House
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

North of Buenos Aires, in the Martínez neighbourhood, a stone's throw from the Río de la Plata, Casa Eucalipto is part of a residential complex where the landscape, designed in the early 20th century by landscape architect Carlos Thays, becomes a legacy with which the contemporary project is called upon to dialogue. Part of this landscape is the historic white eucalyptus tree around which the rigorous composition is arranged, echoing Richard Neutra and Walter Gropius. The large windows alternating with a concrete shell, the horizontality of the two-storey house composed of essential volumes with flat roofs: everything tells of Modernism. In this context, the central patio that houses the tree softens the “inflexible” modernist lexicon, to let the ever-changing flow of vegetation in.