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Quintas House

Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro

QUINTAS HOUSE

Etéreo Arquitectos

ARCHITECTS
Etéreo Arquitectos

PHOTOGRAPHS
Jimena Montenegro

AREA
200 m²

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Tafí Viejo,Argentina

CATEGORY
Houses

Text description provided by architect.

Casa Quintas is located in a gated community in Tafi Viejo, a suburb minutes away from the capital city San Miguel de Tucumán.

Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro

The parti finds its roots moving away from all the modern architectural preconceptions of a typical country clubhouse in Tucumán’s suburbs. 

The first sketches were inspired by some sort of "Revival" on what was once the typical patio house.

Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro

A large courtyard is the center of the composition, connecting the spaces and interacting differently with each and every single one of them. 

Thereby the social area projected in a single large fluid space opens completely to the courtyard, while the private area’s relationship to it is more subtle allowing lighting and ventilation without putting intimacy at stake.

Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro

In Casa Quintas two materials with great presence coexist harmoniously. The common ceramic brick is used in different ways interacting with each volume, with natural light, generating dynamic light penetrations and shadows changing throughout the day.

Off form concrete expresses its beauty with vertical boards of brushed wood, becoming the star in the front facade and in the internal patio, also a large off form Concrete beam crosses from beginning to end and joins the brick blocks that make up the front of the house on the corner.

Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro

At night, lighting becomes an important element to produce different sensations. On one hand, the brickwork generates light and shadow play and on the other, a couple of hidden searchlights beside a retaining wall bathes the three brick blocks from the bottom to top.


Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro


Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro
Quintas House
© Jimena Montenegro


Quintas House
east and west facades
Quintas House
north facade
Quintas House
south facade


Quintas House
Scheme 1
Quintas House
Scheme 2
Quintas House
Scheme 3


Quintas House
Section-A


Quintas House
floor plan
Quintas House
Exploded Axonometry

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