Project
House for Dani and Luis
Category
Best Implemented Project of Private Residence
About the project
The house is located on the suburbs of Córdoba and is designed for an older couple. A continuous wall that gives the house a solid appearance of brick and stone, defines the façade and delimits the domestic space. Local labor was used for its construction, rescuing the Jesuit tradition in a creative way and materializing a reinterpretation of the calicanto. The position of the stones regulates the direction of the bricks where the composition, constitute a whole with variations in value and saturation in which the part, the brick, is always recognizable. The construction itself is the material expression of the house and give it a terracotta hue, creating a rustic and warm atmosphere.
All the rooms open to the garden through concrete frames, and only the two breaks of the house are materialized as calicanto, the barbecue and a small curved wall that borders an existing native tree.
Location
Córdoba, Argentina
Project implementation year
2021
Project website
https://www.vbrugg.com/casa-para-dani-y-luis
Applicant and authors of the project
vbrügg, personal creative space for experimentation and learning of the architect Valentín Brügger, a graduated and attached professor at the Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Córdoba, Argentina. In vbrügg's work it is mainly explored in a creative way with the material and form of the architectural envelope as a qualifier of the space and domestic living and also as a mode of artistic expression in the urban context.
Other participants
Contractors: Alejandro Raiman and Gabriel Cufre
Photographer: Gonzalo Viramonte