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This small house, designed for a family of young professionals and their newborn child, is located on the outskirts of Córdoba, where the boundaries between countryside and city tend to blur.
The project, which is part of a larger constellation of operations in similar territories that the office has been undertaking in recent years, serves as an opportunity to explore typological possibilities for domestic life in "the outskirts."
Situated on a 258 m² lot (12.00 x 21.50 m), the house, blind at the front, occupies half of the lot while opening up to its optimal orientation, drawing from lessons learned from the galleries of the "chorizo" houses in the Argentine pampas. This design not only maximizes natural light and ventilation but also creates a patio of the same dimensions as the house, which, through a system of movable carpentry, allows for complete integration between indoor and outdoor spaces.
Inside, beneath a sharply sloped roof, the social space is situated; it is designed with a section that prioritizes volume over surface area and vertically connects the living-dining area with a small study on the second floor.
Finally, due to a limited budget from a mortgage loan, the project's tectonics are resolved with a system of two parallel beams, each 17 meters long, which act as gargoyles and eaves. Without intermediate columns, these beams support a lightweight roof made of rectangular tubes (160 x 60 mm) over the social space and a solid concrete slab over the bedrooms, which will allow for the addition of another floor in a future stage.