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3 Rocks in the Landscape, Jujuy
15 Oct 2021
Design: Barq´s architecture workshop
Location: Los Nogales, Jujuy, Argentina

3 Rocks in the Landscape
This project was born in 2017 with the commission to design three cabins of different dimensions to be built in the town of Los Nogales, 15 km from San Salvador de Jujuy. As designers of a mountain city (Alta Gracia, Córdoba), the landscape is a great component of our works and is a key piece when creating architecture. In this case it is a natural, impressive landscape, the mountain as an inspiring muse, the whole.

The slogan for Cabañas Los Nidos was clear 3 cabins, S (studio), M (1 bedroom) and L (2 bedrooms), simplicity, little maintenance and use the site’s own resources.
The implantation was the starting point for the further development of the idea, planting 3 rocks that blend in with their surroundings and respect the characteristics of the terrain, the mountain did the rest. Its location was accompanying the natural slope of the land, taking into account orientation, views and privacy, as key axes. In the upper part the parking lot and cabin S are located, then continuing with the slope the cabin M and L.

These elements are characterized by being a monolithic piece, that is to say, all the facades, including the roof, are made of the same material, which allows consolidating a timeless, austere and ...