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Casa Amigo

Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte

CASA AMIGO

Estudio Mono

ARCHITECTS
Estudio Mono

AREA
126 m²

YEAR
2020

MANUFACTURERS
AutoDesk, Sika, Durlock, Weber, ACINDAR, Aluar, Atrim, Cetol, Cortines, Faplac, Holcim, Isolant, JOHNSON, Roca, Trimble, fadepa,

MANUFACTURERS
ferrum

CATEGORY
Houses, Detail

LOCATION
Merlo, Argentina

ENGINEERING
Sara Boccolini

DESIGN TEAM
Ivan Baez, Alejandro Alaniz, Christian Barrera, Patricio Cuello

LEAD ARCHITECT
Ivan Baez, Alejandro Alaniz, Christian Barrera

Text description provided by architect.

Casa Amigo is located in a residential area of the city of Villa de Merlo, San Luis. It is a house for permanent residency which was designed for a friend who is passionate about gastronomy, folk music, and mountainous landscape.

Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte
Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte

When friends come over, the house transforms into a large space for celebration where the outside and the inside mingle under the same roof.

In this space cooking, wine tasting, and card games coexist. The house adapts to the local climate, generating optimal conditions for thermal comfort.

Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte
Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte
Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte

It is made up of two programmatic blocks. A south-facing service block that develops under an exposed concrete slab, with a more closed character, and another block of served spaces facing north, with an open character and greater height that develops under a single wooden roof.

Over the northern area, this unique wooden roof extends outwards creating eaves and galleries that act as an environmental thickener that allow the sun to enter in the winter to gain heat (solar inclination angle 36º) and to protect the area from solar incidence in the summer, keeping environments cool (solar inclination angle 86º).

Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte
Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte
Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte
Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte

The material definition of the house is related, on the one hand, to the fidelity, expression, and low maintenance of exposed brick and concrete, and, on the other hand, to the possibility of maximizing the connection between the inside and the outside that steel and glass offer us.

Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte
Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte
Casa Amigo
© Gonzalo Viramonte


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