Argentinian architect Malvina Zayat has completed a white home for herself and her family that is lifted above a sloped site and enters into "an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds".
The residence sits within a native forest in the town of Salsipuedes, which lies about 30 kilometers from the city of Córdoba.
Malvina Zayat has created an elevated residence in Córdoba
Zayat ? founder of the local firm Malvina Zayat Architecture Studio ? lives there with her husband and two children.
Accessed via a cobblestone street, the home is perched on a hilly property with extensive views of the landscape. The building is elevated and rendered in white, helping "establish an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds".
The house was built for herself and her family "Located in the central sector of the land, with its long side facing north, it appears as a white prism, levitating over the mountain and getting lost in the clouds," said the architectural studio.
Rectangular in plan, the home is lifted up by steel supports. On the west end, the building hovers 3.5 metres above a sheltered parking area.
It is lifted on steel supports and wrapped in white screens
Most of the structural system consists of prefabricated metal parts that were assembled on-site.
The foundation and floor slab are made of concrete ? a decision informed by "the need to accumulate heat in the mass of the slab when the winter sun enters the interior space from the north"...