MYP House – Studio BABO

The project involves the design and construction of a suburban family home, located on a corner lot of a traditional country club party Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The lot of an area of ??approximately 1100 m², belongs to a new area of ??development of the club, this is now the near absence of surrounding buildings and landscaping still negligible in mass and mark the landscape. To the north borders on a par three golf course, already established, without any intermediate with the physical limit, which ensures breadth and richness of visuals in the same direction of good sunning. The lot has flat surface in its entirety.

Overall, the considerable size of the lots, combined with low load factor of Soil and mandatory retirement, generous, established by the internal regulations of the Club, suburban generate very spongy tissue and environmental quality objectives inherent in such ventures. But at the same time, these characteristics also produce, combined with Total load factor and will exhaust the buildable footage allowed by the developers, a volumetric very compact proportions and flat runs. In these, the expansion spaces and semi-covered or open transition as important and in demand in buildings of this nature are limited in their formal logic to be finally added to the main volume is not suitable embodiments of the relevance of its use.

This strong constraint, underlying the volumes of all buildings in the area, is taken here as a strategy for project development, externalizing and fulfill their potential. The resulting volume is displayed in all its forcefulness, to a posteriori formal articles apply different mechanisms, either direct result of the program, such as horizontal subdivision of the volume for night / day, or to maintain privacy without sacrificing large glass surfaces such as translation and rotation movements of the walls that enclose the ground floor.

One of these movements produces a wall corner, covering almost the entire lateral edge of the south west and, as a mud, which, beyond giving privacy acts trigger for the tour program and symbolic. It is the artificial generation of a context, the corner, more typical of other urban types, articles and access at the same time generating n patio transition as a side court. Frissia pseudoacacia is planted one at this point, deciduous tree with strong tonal variation according to season, to more explicit the importance of this resource in the design of the project.

While the pieces that make the overall program correspond to those usual in this type of housing is the treatment of the boundaries between them and the resulting joint space which gives some complexity to the assembly plant. In this sense a clear willingness glimpse of optimizing the main spaces. It was removed to those premises being undermined, by duplication of previous use. From the outset, makes a clear distinction between area day and night. This division is immediate formal consequence. It is intended that the floor is open, frank way relates to the outside, but at the same time, keep the household level and above all privacy. This is a plant fluid, where the spaces are defined by the greater or lesser degree of visual permeability that develops between them, only the kitchen and the toilet can be closed at will. Resources are used as the subject staircase, located between the living and dining room, which acts as a filter, whose railing is understood as a succession of deep, closely spaced plates and tends to disappear when the observer is placed perpendicular to the laying of the ladder ( when you look at the dining room or vice versa) but will solidify as you get closer to face her. It also articulates the relationship between the play-room and being opposed by a cabinet-level longitudinal nesting. The gallery is seen as another room in itself, of the same magnitude as the living-dining area, double deep and height; important piece to be the most vivid for many months, can be fully integrated to the living-dining removing the trim sliding large format (avoiding the double height of them, for easy cleaning). While the deployment of ground floor walls and the openings are in them, ensures privacy and creates fuzzy boundaries and ambiguous spaces that suggest smooth succession.

The first floor, beyond the direct visual link between the distributor and the double-height line is formed by a succession of rooms and bathrooms. All rooms open to the outside through large openings. Each room a different front: the intention is to particularize each of the premises giving different views and sunning. This feature also allows for more mass to higher volume and generate equivalent facades, thus enhancing its monolithic character.

It has placed special emphasis on natural lighting design. On the ground floor is avoided direct sunning. All the light enters bounced, which gives a particular light quality, with a very consistent and uniform light in all environments. This point, coupled with double-height factor of cross ventilation and this always makes the ground floor is particularly cool in summer and there is no need to resort to artificial means of refrigeration. In winter comfort is guaranteed by the radiant, even in all his lying.

As for materials, we decided to use brick Chacabuco manual type, as in community buildings Club, with the intention to establish some consistency with the environment. The brick module is very much since the general proportions of higher volume and is directly related to the articulator of the full-empty. For floors downstairs clear granite are used for both indoor and outdoor, and finishing gypsum vertical walls throughout the house. It is also used wood in the ceilings of the gallery, on two levels. All carpenters are anodized black color monolayer share with the completion of the wall cladding that surrounds the ground floor kitchen.

The project aims to be a synthesis of one hand, constraints and limitations presented by the apparent theme of the family home in non-permeable with relational requirements, privacy and security of individuals and on the other hand, acceptance of pressure constructively in such an environment as possible and legitimate strategy of design.