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Valeria House in Pinama
Residential Development: Argentina Home ? design by BAK arquitectos
1 Sep 2016
Valeria House
Design: BAK arquitectos
Location: Valeria del Mar, Pinamar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Valeria House in Pinama

This work is the outcome of a process that began in 2004 with the construction of Besonias and Almeida Architects Summer House in the forest of Mar Azul.

The purpose was to do an intervention in a place of significant landscape value, an opportunity to propose alternatives for design and construction, considering caring of the natural environment as a fundamental premise. The answer was the proposal of a minimal architecture both in material and formal resources, not only as an aesthetic choice, but as an ethical principle of valorization of a wiser use of the resources available.  
This stripped architecture should be incorporated into the landscape with a will of belonging, seeking to join the existing reality.

This is how it was decided that a skin of only two materials: concrete and glass, should solve with its reflections and texture such integration and also gave response to formal, structural, functional, terminations and maintenance issues.

An aesthetic constructive proposal as prototype

This architecture, so worried in joining the environment that originates it as far away from stereotypes of preexisting architectures, was finding very goo...