Tectum used a combination of gridded and board-marked concrete for this residence, which is set in a gated community in the foothills of Argentina's Sierras Chicas mountains (+ slideshow).

Argentinian architects Manuel Gonzalez Veglia and Dolores Menso designed the 160-square-metre residence named Corzuelas House within the confines of the new community on the outskirts of Unquillo, a city around 20 miles northwest of Cordoba.

To keep costs low, the architects designed the house around the use of inexpensive modular and pre-finished elements.

The outer walls are made from a combination of grey board-marked concrete, white stacked blocks and black-painted metal, while inside gypsum boards cover some of the exposed concrete walls.
Casting concrete within wooden formwork to create raw, textured surfaces is a construction technique that is popular among Argentinian studios including Luciano Kruk, Besonias Almeida Arquitectos and ATV Arquitectos.

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"The project is meant to be a sober and orderly intervention; a pause within a visually noisy context," said the architects.

"Once you walk in the interior of the house, one understands that the spacial sequence is defined by its structure," they added.

A broad wooden door pivots into the house, which has an L-shaped plan and interlocking L-shaped patio.

This arrangement provides separa...