‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House

'ARQ RIFA G’2010' HOUSE

Emilio Garateguy + Ignacio Trecca

‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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ARCHITECTS
Emilio Garateguy, Ignacio Trecca

CATEGORY
Houses

LOCATION
Ciudad De La Costa, Uruguay

AREA
127 m²

PHOTOGRAPHY
Ignacio Trecca

STRUCTURE
Magnone-Pollio Ingenieros Civiles

PROJECT YEAR
2017

CONSTRUCTION
Estudio Oliver SRL

SANITARY CONDITIONING
Oficina de Arquitectura

ARCHITECTS ADVISORS
MBAD Arquitectos, Mario Baez, Adrián Duran

ARCHITECT IN CHARGE
Emilio Garateguy, Ignacio Trecca

JURY OF THE COMPETITION
Marcelo Gualano, Marcelo Danza, Marcelo Bednarik, Federico Mesa

LANDSCAPE AND GARDENING
Julian Gago

ORGANIZATION
ARQ RIFA G’2010 /CEDA/FADU (Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, UDELAR)

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Text description provided by architect.

The house is the first prize of the characteristic architectural Housing Contest “Arquitectura RIFA G’2010” from Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo, FADU - UDELAR.

This is a Student Contest, once they select the winning proposal begins a process advised of development that culminates with the construction of the winning project.

‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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The property is located in a corner in front of the sea in Ciudad de la Costa, a suburban area adjacent to Montevideo.

The low vegetation on the side of the beach and the wide avenue, make it difficult to see toward the sea on the ground floor.

‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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Here is the “Key” of the project. The main spaces in relation to the ground or with the view on an upper floor?

The short facade facing the Rambla and account with a non-buildable area of 15m, which conditions its implementation toward the bottom.

‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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The choose, to maximize the use of the venue, solving the housing in a massive volume on the ground floor, appropriating the extensions to the outdoor spaces, looking for care privacy with respect to the nearest street and communicate fluently interior and exterior spaces in the longitudinal direction.

The access is given by a patio, generating a controlled outer space also works, next to the kitchen, separator of the social areas and the most deprived of housing.

‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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It is the spiral staircase of access to the barbecue and upper terrace, generating a functional circuitry.

The living-dining area is located toward the Rambla, using the entire width of the constructible space.

‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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It is conceived as an open space and fluid, with both the more intimate patio access as the front garden.

In the farthest part of the visual and sound pollution of the Rambla are the bedrooms and services.

‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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The services are conceived as a nucleus, also playing with the logic of the massive volume.

In contrast the divisions of the rest of the interior spaces are lightweight enclosures, it is the furniture that generate the separations.

‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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The two main bedrooms facing the street perpendicular to the coast, and the area next to it, it is proposed a semi-outdoor gallery permeable, which allows a visual filter to the outside, in addition to providing an extension to the same, creating a pleasant microclimate in the summer months, and allowing the entry of the sun in the coldest months.

With regard to the speech raised, we look to the ground floor is a massive volume, while the barbecue is a lightweight and transparent.

‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
© Ignacio Trecca
‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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We found on the brick as a material capable of achieving a volume hard and in turn with the sufficient versatility for different types of permeability thus regulating privacy and light keeping the reading of rustic and heavy volume.

At the same time, allows a continuous surround on all sides of the prism, including the deck, where is implemented a system of on high ceiling to achieve this continuity material only.

‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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We studied carefully the rigging of brick, allowing the permeability when needed without interrupting the pace of the carcass dissection.

The treatment is quite simple since you are looking for the protagonist of the massif of brick.

‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
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Toward the Rambla is raised against the denser vegetation limit to generate sound and visual privacy and leaving a large esplanade green as an extension of the dwelling. The courtyard of the fund has a different character, more private and service



‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
Cross Section
‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
Longitudinal Section


‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
Posterior Facade
‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
Rambla Street Facade
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Retiro Street Facade
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Río Dulce Street Facade


‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
Floor Plan
‘Arq Rifa G’2010’ House
Implantation