Casa Joaquina is located on Bartolomé Coleone street in an old low-cost housing lot that is currently under renovation.
The challenge of the order was to maximize the garden surface on a plot with 16 meters of front and 21 meters of depth and that required a minimum of 5 meters of front garden. For this, the entire program was left private in the second level and the public in the first level. The living and dining room are projected surrounded by the garden and with glazed panels from floor to ceiling in order to expand the spatial perception and connect the interior with the exterior. The second level, more hermetic, is made up of 2 volumes clad in 2x2 ”brushed pine slats connected by a central corridor in a north-south direction. To the east, there are the main bedroom with its dependencies and the living room and to the west, the bedrooms and the children's bathroom plus the staircase. In front of the stairs, the wooden facade is fragmented, generating a lattice in the same cladding.
The first level was designed in exposed reinforced concrete and the second, in SIP panels. To improve the thermal behavior of the house, passive design techniques were used such as roof and ventilated façade, latticework towards the west façade, thermal mass on the interior faces of the sip panels and eaves on windows.