The place

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Architects: Besonias Almeida Arquitectos

Location: Pinamar, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Area: 810.0 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

Design And Project Management: María Victoria Besonías, Guillermo de Almeida

Collaborators: Diorella Fortunati

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From the architect. The placeCosta Esmeralda is a private venture on the dunes of the coast of Buenos Aires, 390 km from the city of Buenos Aires. This is a recent development with a young acacia and pine trees afforestation with a few consolidated forest sectors.

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The lot to intervene is located in a dune with a gentle slope to the street and a greater slope towards the bottom. This area also has an abundance of trees of young maritime pines. So that, if the vegetation is preserved, anything built in the rest of the lot will be exposed to intense sun and coastal winds.

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The commissionThe request was a house with an aesthetic-constructive proposal similar to those built in the forest of Mar Azul, valued according to the principals both for its formal austerity and the low maintenance required.

Floor Plan

The house would be inhabited mainly in the summer by a family with ...