Project Credits & Specs:
- Architects: Estudio Fernandez Renati
- Photographs: Javier Agustin Rojas
- Location: Castelar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Area: 1.141m2
- Year: 2021
- Architect in Charge: Alejo Fernandez
- Design Team: Héctor Fernandez Renati, Gimena Caffo
- Engineering: Claudio Ianesse
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 design operations that in the studio we call the “Housing Manifesto”:
– Internal courtyard
– Lighting and cross ventilation.
– Spatial relations.
– Railing furniture.
– Architectural tour.
– Access to the roof.
The land is 2,500 m² and is located in a country club on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. The site where aged trees predominate was respected in its entirety for the location of the house.
The axis of the work is an internal patio surrounded by ramps that connect covered spaces with other semi-covered ones, generating a fluid transition route between the areas that are inhabited.
The house was implanted at the bottom of the land, to receive sun throughout the day. We decided to reverse the traditional taking of sides by locating the private program on the ground floor and the social one on the top floor.
We characterize the rooms with a private, calm and tight space, which gives the sensation of being inserted in a forest. While the living room rises to be at the height of the treetops and generates cross ventilation and lighting throughout the day, allowing access from this space to the entire house.
On the second level, there is a study with independent access and a room for guests, culminating the tour. The construction is bare and lacks pretentious materials, all the luxury is given by the nature that surrounds it. The materials used predominate concrete, brick, and wood.
The project description is provided by the architects.
