Dwell between the countryside and the beach

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Architects: MAPA

Location: José Ignacio, Departamento de Maldonado, Uruguay

Architect In Charge: Luciano Andrades, Matías Carballal, Rochelle Castro, Andrés Gobba, Mauricio López, Silvio Machado

Area: 90.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Leonardo Finotti

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From the architect. Dwell between the countryside and the beachTo inhabit the binomial countryside-beach entails dialogs between uses and customs intuitively disparate. Far enough away from the city but yet influenced by it, the new maritime ?chacras? combine opposites in coexistence: from the summer enjoyment to the winter gathering, from the sophistication of the beach meeting to the simplicity of country life. Conjugation of landscapes and practices: field and lagoon, beach and sea. 
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Floor Plan

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Remote LandscapesTo build in far away territories from the surroundings in which we usually live is a great challenge. Remoteness not as a limit but as a possibility, as a value, as a generator of fields and conditions. Remote landscapes confronts us with the awareness of immenseness. It puts us in our role in reality.

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