Las Marías House, Córdoba Real Estate, Argentinian Real Estate, South American Home, Architecture Photography
Las Marías House in Córdoba
1 Sep 2022
Architects: Santiago Viale and Associates
Location: Córdoba, Argentina, South America

Photos: Architect Gonzalo Viramonte
Las Marías House, Argentina
The house unfolds among a profuse trees vegetation, reason why detecting the voids available became a priority, being these the configuring spaces of the social area of the house, while towards north the rectangular prism of private areas was disposed, both connected through a circulation surrounding the main courtyard.

These design decisions pursued the objective of maintaining all of the trees that the site contained, with the purpose of achieving the least environmental impact possible. The thermal condition was considered from the very first idea; by which it was decided to maintain the volume of vegetation from the trees above the sealing as the elemental solar protector for this. Moreover, the house presents several intermediate spaces, inherited from our colonial architecture.
All the private areas of the house were placed in a north-facing block, which has a concrete eaves that allows the entry of abundant sunlight in winter and none in summer.

On the facade facing the street, to the west, a brick screening was proposed before the garages, which together form a filter conformed by a material and programmatic proposal as a protection to the strong afternoon sunlig...