A glass walkway and terrace connect both halves of this black house near La Juanita beach, Uruguay, which FRAM Arquitectos and Delfina Riverti built almost exclusively out of wood.
The property is built on a slope near Jose Ignacio Lake, a coastal body of water that feeds into the Atlantic Ocean. It was completed by FRAM Arquitectos, a studio located in nearby city Buenos Aires, and architect Riverti.

Two wooden volumes with angled rooflines comprise the home's massing. Different varieties and treatments to the material were used for the structure, walls, cladding, and interior finishes.
Dark horizontal planks wrap the home, and are held in place with slightly paler vertical elements that align with the building's structure.

"In this way, the external language embodies the direct expression of the constructive and material modulation," said FRAM Arquitectos in a project description. The team paired pale pine, a soft and inexpensive wood, with Massaranduba, a species native to South America.

The pine planks are oil-stained to a dark tone, which contrasts the natural colour of the tropical wood. The Massaranduba strips were also treated with oil, but left in their natural shade.
"No treatment was used, so that these parts age with time and turn gray, differentiating them from the two black volumes," architect Franco Riccheri from FRAM Arquitectos told Dezeen.

Pine was also used for the interior finishes, where the material was whitewashed to protect it...