Estudio Galera

Pelicano House

Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia

PELICANO HOUSE

Estudio Galera

ARCHITECTS
Estudio Galera

LOCATION
Cariló, Argentina

CATEGORY
House

AREA
93.0 m²

CONTRACTOR
Acosta-audine

PHOTOGRAPHS
Diego Medina – dcfotografia

PLANNING AND PROJECT DIRECTION
Galera Studio

COLLABORATOR ARCHITECT
Horacio Riga

COLLABORATOR
Veronica Coleman

SURVEYOR
Claudio D´Eramo

DESIGN TEAM 
Ariel Galera, Diego Ballario, Cesar Amarante

STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
Engineer Jvier Mendia

TEXTS
Francisco Vvllamil

TRANSLATION AND TEXT EDITING
Soledad pereyra

YEAR
2015

Text description provided by architect.

The project was designed around a specific design problem: to satisfy functional, aesthetic, and semantic needs.

Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia
Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia

The house, situated on a 1032 m2 corner lot in the city of Cariló, is lifted above the natural terrain level due to the low height of the terrain and the area’s restrictions on modifying the natural topography. This creates an indirect link -visual rather than functional- between the house and the lot.

The program is divided into two wagons, separating the private from the social areas.

Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia
Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia
Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia

These wagons, which are placed in an L shape and are separated by half a level, open to the garden at the front façade as it engages the street.

The hierarchical access created by the house height and the various entrances of sunlight become the link between the different architectural volumes. This disposition offers flexibility of use to the residents of the house and protects their privacy.

The play of sunlight created over the different textures, which was paramount in the development of the project, makes the architectural experience rich to the senses and variable through time.

Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia
Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia

Oblique pergolas, roof fenestrations, ground level windows, bars of acrylic in concrete walls, repetitive columns which protect the kitchen, and the rhythmic brisolei which gives privacy to the bathrooms create daily games of sun and shades. The use of materials in their natural state produces chromaticity and gives a rich tactile and visual texture.

At the same time, the predominance of concrete generates a visual unity amongst the blocks, stone, and timber, granting a natural touch of warmth and ruggedness. The house is an articulated and dynamic composition that plays with axis, scheme, skew, and rhythm.

Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia


Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia
Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia
Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia
Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia
Pelicano House
© Diego Medina – dcfotografia


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Ground Floor Plan
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Access Floor Plan
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Roof Plan


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Section AA
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Section CC
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Section BB


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Elevation 1
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Elevation 2
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Elevation 3
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Elevation 4


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Diagram 1
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Detail

Estudio Galera
T +54 2254 570995
Estudio Galera
B7167 Cariló, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina