Super chalet dwellingsWhat to do with the extension?Mar del plata posses a high number of low density “chalet” housing,extended in picturesque garden neighbours along the seaside over theAtlantic Ocean.What it was mean to be a domestic laboratory in the beginnings of theXX century, the era of modern architecture, developed in thetransformation of big villas into small domestic housing, creatinggarden neighbours of low density, rows of houses with a small gardenon the front and a backyard.The phenomenon was a combination of a process of miniaturization andexcess, myth and desire. What it was supposed to be an example of anew and rationalistic domestic life, became an imposed abuse ofarchitectonic styles over a minimal surface to satisfy a dream withvery high expenses: the mar del plata style.Rough zones of the city expands with this typology; with material andformal conditions of a century ago, proving itself wrong andincompatible with today's standards, but having over the years a roughimpact in the people`s desire, exhausting the urban field and itsextension`s capacity, becoming a mediocre carpet of low qualityarchaic constructions, contaminating with its obscene materiality ofundefined permanence thenon contrasting urban borders, and therefore dissolving its identity.How to invert this process that transformed mar del plata in anexhausted and dissolved urban field, debilitating central zones asmuch as expanding to unsure horizons, where the limitless extensionstransform a middle density city (800.000 inhab.) in heavy urbanmatter, big deteriorated zones, accessibility problems and on top ofeverything else, a high damage of the natural borders who provides“savage” nature, food and leisure spaces?.The concentrationA concentration process is needed, defining and identifying use zonesand leisure spaces, creating new and exiting shapes of living,purposely freeing nature and concentrating dynamically what's left forhumans, a human nature of sorts.By maximizing the local chalet to the size of “big villa”, androtating it “upside down” a new typology emerges: a housing buildingwhere the project's logics are inverted; maximizing instead ofminiaturizing so to generate the super size of collective dwellings;rationalization instead excess for a maximal self-sufficiency, nonnaturalizing the shapes and materials instead of the mythicarchitectonic conception; and the reality of a contemporary inhabitinstead dreaming about it; all this resulting in the super- chalet.The new super-chalet is a catalogue, a misse and scenne, of therationalized elements of a traditional house but monumentalized to thesize of collective dwellings to satisfy thehuman desire.Raised gardenThe garden level the new roof- is a “garden in the front with abackyard”, but raised 35 meters, that ecologically graduates the superchalet's temperature, with a pool that ambitiously collects rain waterand transform it into energy for the mechanical elevators.Attics on the surfaceThe traditional attic under the roof becomes the “cistern attics” onthe surface, monumentalizing the contact of the super chalet with thesurroundings, the less surface on the ground, the more self-sufficientbuilding. The big barrels attics creates sculptural like shapes andleaves savage nature grow between them.One door hall/mezzanine entranceA big hole is carved out creating an urban door. The dwellings areaccessed at level 7.00 mts. by mechanical elevators that lift peoplefrom the savage ground. This lifted hall opens the first views overthe neighbour, and like an open wound, a 15 meters water fall manifestthe water cycle.A conscious Water fallThe water fall that can be experienced in the one door hall is part ofthe water cycle that loops inside the super-chalet.The collective windowA villa that looks over the romantic idea of savage nature whileframing postcard like-views of the ocean and surroundings.Water cycleThe pool on the roof works as a dike of rain water that immediatelyfalls over a wall of 15 meters, becoming hydroelectric energy toaliment the elevators of the super-chalet, then part of the water isrelocated on the cistern next to the pool providing grey water for thebuilding's toilets and the refilling of the pool.FaçadeIs it possible a façade that controls the sun reflection while heatingthe surfaces that remain in the shadow most of the day?The double skin with a balcony or mini-veranda ,with is glass-houseeffect, surrounds the entire façade, a pattern of a mixed glass and acopper mesh that is lighter and densest as required; thehomogenization of the material brings the opposite of excess whilemagnifying the effect of the one door hall and the collective window.