Casa XS | Holiday House in Mar Azul - Argentina

Location: Mar Azul, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Architect: Maria Victoria Besonías, Guillermo de Almeida, Luciano Kruk
Architect Homepage: www.bakarquitectos.com.ar
Land area: 475 m2
Floor area: 52 m2
Year built: 2007

Mar Azul is a seaside resort 400 miles south of Buenos Aires, with an extensive beach of dunes and lush virgin forest of conifers. The land which forms part of the forest has the particularity of being very narrow and long and having a surface slope almost 5 meters before the bottom line. From that point, the dune has a sharp depression of low vegetation cover (acacia), but no pines. So looking from the lot toward the area, the conifers of the land was clear cut in this very special evening when the sun falls and goes horizontal into the trees. This singularity makes it undoubtedly the most privileged view.

The floor of the house of 4.00m x 12.00m is covered by a slab of reinforced concrete that it rests on the side walls with an overhang of 2.00 m supported by a beam that runs the inverted kitchen and dining reinforcements in the slab partners.

The interior partitions are of hollow bricks removed and painted with white latex, the floor is smooth concrete panels divided by Planchuelo aluminum. The meeting between walls and the floor was resolved with an aluminum profile rehundido way socket. The openings are of dark bronze anodized aluminum. The heating system as there is no natural gas in the area, was resolved with a system that combines salamander, a bottled gas stove and electric stoves.

onsistent with the aesthetic constructive solution proposed by the study for other summer houses in the area, customers only have conditioned the project from the surface to build the house could not exceed 50m2 including with Half and should make provision for growth in a bedroom in a second stage to be determined over time.

Being able to experience in functional and aesthetic issues in the constructive atmosphere, including the maritime forest with other works recently built and have obtained very satisfactory results, in response to the opportunity, putting emphasis on improving the system and tested their resolve adaptation to this program at least a narrow lot with a house edge on its right side and a large property, by lot, on the other.

Aware of the atmosphere generated by the forest environment was essential to ensure a generous influx of light to the premises. Reinforcement of the illumination coming from the various openings on the perimeter is thought to include an entry in daylight across the width of the prism height of the bath (as this is internal) and the access. With this objective was designed to coincide with a caladura containing the washing allowance, which is prolonged in the hallway that goes to the bedroom and the foyer and has just as many “cuts” on the side facades, lighting effects which will vary with the elapse of the day.