Ibiray House

IBIRAY HOUSE 

Oreggioni Prieto

Ibiray House
© Leonardo Finotti

LOCATION
Montevideo, Uruguay

PROJECT YEAR
172.0 m2

PROJECT YEAR
Lucho Oreggioni, Sonia Prieto, Fernanda Ríos

CATEGORY
Houses

PHOTGRAPHS
Leonardo Finotti

PROJECT YEAR
2010

INTERIORS
Sonia Prieto, Fernanda Ríos

SURFACE AREA
Interior 172 m2 / Exterior 86 m2

CLIENT
Ernesto Ormaechea

ALUMINUM AND GLASS
Murara

IRON WORK 
Juan Grippi

HEATING SYSTEM
Losa Radiante Eléctrica Eurocable

CONSTRUCTION
MR construcciones. Arq. Claudio Ritorni

CONSTRUCTION COST (2009)
1200 U$S/m2 Ints. 600 U$S/m2 Exts.

STRUCTURE
Schinca Barreto arquitectos

WOODWORK
Carmidecor

PLUMBING
Jorge Goyres

LANDSCAPE
Julián Gago

LIGHTING
Sonia Prieto, Fernanda Ríos

Ibiray House
© Leonardo Finotti

Text description provided by architect.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION BY ARCHITECTURE

Located in "La Isla", a small stretch of strong impact on Punta Carretas residential neighborhood (Montevideo, Uruguay), where traditional houses of the early twentieth century without setbacks coexist with more recent houses setback from the sidewalk.

The house was built on the almost ruin of an old house without setbacks, on a site 140 m2. We kept a trace of the old building using the facade wall, so as to create continuity with the two boundaries.

Ibiray House
© Leonardo Finotti
Ibiray House
© Leonardo Finotti

But much of the indoor environments are removed from the wall, taking advantage of the northern orientation facing the longer side of the property.

The facade sets a screen for privacy, designed on the ground floor with the rest of the original wall and on the upper level with a deciduous plant attached to a wire mesh, which generates seasonally changing conditions, and a variable image also according to the seasons and blooms.

Ibiray House
© Leonardo Finotti
Ibiray House
© Leonardo Finotti

The house was conceived as the total volume of "architecturally treated air", with intertwined interior and exterior instances, with good orientation and oblique views.

The project articulates certain traditional urban qualities of the neighborhood, with its status as contemporary piece.

The meager size of the property is mitigated through continuous and interconnected spaces with a certain programmatic ambiguity: living, dining-kitchen, barbecue, garage, deck and courtyards, corridor to deck and study and bathroom, etc.. 

Ibiray House
© Leonardo Finotti
Ibiray House
© Leonardo Finotti

It has two bedrooms a study and playroom. According to the client's expectations, we worked the articulation of the relations between the grill and barbecue space, with the kitchen-dining room, the living room and play room. At the same time we took care of privacy for the two bedrooms, one on each level.

Ibiray House
© Leonardo Finotti
Ibiray House
© Leonardo Finotti


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