Molinos Lake House, Córdoba Property, Argentinian Real Estate, South American Architecture Photography
Molinos Lake House in Córdoba
27 Oct 2020
Molinos Lake House
Architects: Estudio Montevideo + Pablo Dellatorre
Location: Córdoba, Argentina, South America

The design of the Molinos Lake House arises from consciously understanding its surroundings and materializing the immaterial, a path, a journey whose purpose is to look towards Los Molinos lake. Thus, what defines the entire construction is an action, walking and contemplating.

The concept from which the architects were inspired is that of a coastal village, with its winding streets that aim to reach the water element, crossing and connecting all the areas that make up daily urban life.
Thus, analogously to the functioning of a village, the social area is arranged in direct friction with this journey towards the lake, which is signified by these activities at the same time that it structures and connects them.

The different elements of the program operate as singular milestones that accompany this journey. With the same principle, the most private areas are arranged in the upper volume, with 5 bedrooms and 2 viewing terraces.

The reading of the whole is understood as a composition of volumes attached to the shape of a coastal town, being the place of a microcosm of relationships between its inhabitants and their environment.

The chosen materiality seeks to convey a strong presence on the ground, optin...