Patio House
PATIO HOUSE
Ezequiel Spinelli Y Facundo López
ARCHITECTS
Ezequiel Spinelli, Facundo S. López
AREA
59 M²
YEAR
2019
COLLABORATOR
Joaquin Traverso, Giovanni Mario Pemintel Lines
CATEGORY
Houses, Renovation, Landscape
MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Trimble
LOCATION
La Plata, Argentina
CONSTRUCTION
Ramón Martinez, José Martinez
PHOTOGRAPH
Luis Barandiarán
ENGINEERING
Julian Lafuente, Gastón Flores
ELECTRICITY
Jorge Ramos, Carlos Ramos
PAINTING
Eusebio Martinez
COLLABORATION IN CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Julián I. Kelis, Mirella Villanueva
SMITHY
Ramiro Budiño
PLUMBING
Walter Romero
ZINGUERIA
German Marchini
LANDSCAPE
Mirella Villanueva
Text description provided by architect.
This is a small remodeling, located in the center of the city of La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires. A corner house that did not serve the needs of a young couple who wanted to make their home.
The curious operation that we proposed to them was, instead of enlarging the house, making it smaller and optimizing it.
With an emptying operation we gave light to a bedroom and the possibility of light entering from two orientations to the living room.
A space as long and wide as possible, entirely open to a patio, which matches in size.
A 12 meter span beam, apparently unnecessary for a 50 square meter house, ensures the absence of columns, of mediations between the interior and the exterior.
The carpentry can be opened and the living space, meager, is doubled in the patio. Now there is a house where interior and exterior are the same, where patio and living room are the same.
A wall that is white on the inside and black on the outside limits visuals and gives protection to that patio.
The house needed that clear, quiet courtyard, isolated from the city outside. However, the look of design over construction remains the key to the project.
This beam, only possible thanks to the reinforced concrete, produces the opening and an eaves that produces the shade protection to the north.
Like the galleries of the ranch of the Argentine pampas. Here, the absence of space, of infinite perspectives of the plain, is replaced by the neutral white image of the plastered wall. The user will imagine any width they want on that white canvas.
