SET Arq’s house in Argentina is nestled between two walls

Design firm: SET arq
Project name: Casa dos Muros
Location: Córdoba, Argentina
Dimensions: 570 sqm 

In Argentina, SET arq has designed a house that takes existing constraints as the guiding principles of the project. The two-storey house, nestled on a gently sloping hillside and accessible from the upper level of the road to the south-east, owes its layout to the two stone side walls that mark the north-east and south-west boundaries of the plot and to an algarrobo tree that the building incorporates as the natural fulcrum of the composition. Around this, the space unfolds in a sequence of open and permeable spaces, defined by minimal and flexible partitions, and erodes into a pattern of tree-lined patios intercepting natural light and ventilation, while amplifying the visual continuity with the outside. A palette of strictly exposed natural materials (stone, concrete and metal), in dialogue with the large glass surfaces of the north-west facing façade, reflects the search for a subtle balance between structural rigour and figurative lightness.