A club house and spa located in the mountains of Córdoba, in the town of Carlos Paz. Its location in the mountains, the party conditions that proposes to harmonize all with views to the mountains creating a shelter from the winds, a central plaza. The implementation responds to consider particularly important visual features the site in an area overlooking the lake and the mountains, nestle in a topography with significant slopes.
Admission arranged through a sequence of spaces. A semi-cover plaza create a welcoming atrium with the possibility of vehicular access. A series of thin concrete columns dilute the structure of the slab covering the entrance, creating an artificial grove, combine with a metal pergola, produce a game-changing lights and shadows on the columns and flooring. Two perpendicular planes of gray-blue stone obscure the view for a moment to give way to the hall immediately inside the building. These blue-gray levels refer to the archetypal figure of the Sierras de Cordoba, seen from afar. From there, the building opens to the lake and surrounding mountain ranges.
The party proposes developing the site with the program, dividing the project into two functional sectors. In court, the whole program shingles organizing functions in relation to the levels. The higher volume as a semiclaustro, open to views and lower their materiality restore stone mountainside. On the upper level will be dining coffee shop, micro, mixed-use living and services for events as well as day care, and the bottom: gym, spa, indoor pool and youth areas. The second section located on the lower level, implemented with a continuous wall of rock on which rests the remainder of the program.
The book draws on the exploration of the expressive possibilities of light, a subject of recurring interest in the work of the study. This ability to illuminate the interior spaces with natural light in control manner at different times of day favors the reduction of power consumption of the whole. The materials used (concrete, natural stone, glass and aluminum) allows termination with low maintenance and high visual quality. The party of the building are able to generate horizontal surfaces of use from use of the premises lower level as garden terraces, determine as a garden accessible surface.
The outdoor pool, located on the upper level, exceeds by a stone wall into a pool on the lower level, using the sound of water as a characteristic of the Cordoba hills which allows us to provide a particular quality in the space below. At this end of the upper part, the proposed building as an eye, a concrete pipe open to the visual landscape. Before the auction, a terrace, which serves as the outer hall, two terraces landscape links to respective sides. A metal pergola built with his play of light and shadow textures changing the flooring and the concrete wall.
The building articulates the landscape spaces creating frame, and visual cuts that let you enjoy the game of architecture with nature in an environment characteristic of the hills of Cordoba. For the construction of the building used a separate reinforced concrete structure with foundation on the rock in the place. You empelaron enclosures with walls and walls of glass coating and safety. In air with special acoustical requirements such as SUM, DVH used. The stone walls materialized with offcuts from the production of black slate floors of San Luis. This stone is traditionally used as flagstone placed with the cut side saw seen, creating the smooth texture and bluish-gray color of the coating. The foreign soldiers executed in the same material but arranged as boxed slab. The interiors are parquet flooring and porcelain rustic gray depending on the sector.
