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Casa SC in Potrero de Garay
10 Dec 2021
Design: Development Architectural Group
Location: Country Náutico, Potrero de Garay, Córdoba, Argentina

Casa SC is located in the Calamuchita Valley, this summer house has lake Los Molinos as the main landscape of its surroundings. The mountain range is also a protagonist when looking west, which incurres in an exiting balancing challenge between the beautiful view and the high-hitting sun in the afternoon.

Casa SC in Potrero de Garay
The architectural program starts from a concise point of view, intending to introduce the lake’s big water mirror inside the house, by generating a large open space consisting of a long and wide gallery and its correspondence with a kitchen/living room of the same length and double width. Both spaces metaphorically ‘leak’ into the lake, as the main architectural idea of the house.
Along with this concept, additional important requests were taken into consideration. The main façade facing west consists of a large double-height, exposed concrete screening wall. Working as a multi-source lantern towards the inside in the afternoon, and a regulator of the intense sun. From it, the top-floor staircase’s steps ‘grow’ with a floating, cantilever design of the same material.

This same wall is separated from another one that works as a visor/cap, letting the air flow throu...