The project
A weekend house in La Pedrera , a little village at the Atlantic coast , 220 km from Montevideo, in the department of Rocha, Uruguay.
An affordable housing , easy, concrete .
The assignment was conceive a project of a house that would be constructed in a few months, whit a remote team of workers.
Therefore systematize construction, easy mounting , solve simple details, was part of how to approach this project.
The site
A parcel of 12 x 36 m, in a young eucalyptus forest , nearly the village.
A flat terrain , a few blocks from the sea.
The Program
Two bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen, an interior space ( dining - room), an outer space (deck - grill ) .
A sequence of programmatic bands .
Simple spaces, are defined by geometry and the program .
Interior 64m2
Outside 32m2
The piece defines a contour, a boundary of blocks , solid and drafts, that incorporates into the perimeter the outer space - barbacue deck .
This housing is formed as a single piece , Abstract , which contains the program into their "inner" .
Externally the house , connects , but does not colonize . Only a low wall defines vehicular and pedestrian entrance , which take advantage of the talls eucalyptus shades.
In summary , a white piece that fits between the thin trunks .
Becoming place .