Casa Arenas

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Casa Arenas

Firm

AD11

Type

Residential › Private House

YEAR

2011

The house searches its intimacy by looking to the inside, the arid, uninteresting and highly constructed environment, suggests not be seen from the front but with subtle diagonal perspectives.This property is located within a horizontal condominium corner. The arrangement was to create a single floor project designed for two adults, avoiding different ground levels.The boundary with the surrounding homes of more than one level was a challenge for connivance with discordant elevations; therefore, it was decided to include high ceilings in the day areas. This not only integrates the house to its context, it also provides an evocative sense of space in the internal composition of the house.The program was simple: A principal bedroom, studio, day and guests areas, services and a guest room.The plan view recalls the binuclear houses of Marcel Breuer, two bays connected by a north-south oriented circulation. Strictly speaking one of these areas is organized for day activities and other services (guests areas), while in the other is for the bedrooms and the studio (private areas).The two cores are contained by a tectonic and discontinuous wall in which the double height blocks overlook, the white belt is shown as a base that creates gardens for both: day and private areas, and shows a sign of contradiction between a modern tectonic base against stereotomic heaviness of the solid bodies that continue until they reach the level of the neighbors and finish off the structure. They are manufactured of an organic material made from river sand, mortar and steel burrs that has oxidized.The skylights trail offer lit spaces, which doesn’t need openings to the outside, making the house views turn into its gardens. The house is an enclosure that contains continuous spaces that could be deprived if desired or can be shared with a subtle sheen of privacy

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Casa Arenas

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