House in the Trees was designed to be built in Barrio Marítimo II, a neighborhood in Costa Esmeralda, located thirteen kilometers north of the city of Pinamar and four hours away from Buenos Aires City.

Description
Parallel to the sea, this neighborhood is separated from the coastline by a screen of leafy pines, thus producing a setback that complies with provincial regulations.
The lot?s highest level is at the front, and slopes downward as it gets farther from the street, just as sand dunes do as they interfuse with the sea.
The clients commissioned a leisure home that could also be rented out eventually. The house had to accommodate a typical program: one master room and two secondary bedrooms, a social uses area, and an outdoor swimming pool. They requested that the house, protected by the woods, had minimal impact on its environment. Supported by a minimum tread structural volume ? which lodges the entrance and the service and engine rooms ? the house was situated on the highest level of the lot.
We decided to set the house back beyond the minimum required by regulations. Surrounded by a pine wood, the house merged into the landscape?s natural atmosphere gaining privacy and the possibility of increasing its glazed surfaces.
Regarding the request to minimize the maintenance needs, we proposed the house to be made entirely of exposed concrete and glass. Dark bronze anodized aluminum was chosen for the exterior framings for them to be visually invisible. ...