WS HOUSE
bercetche estudio
MANUFACTURERS
AutoDesk, Durlock, Hafele, Aluminios del Uruguay, Azores, Inca, Sinteplast
PHOTOGRAPHS
Sebastian Aguilar
AREA
255 m²
YEAR
2018
LOCATION
Colonia Nicolich, Uruguay
CATEGORY
Houses
Text description provided by architect.
Located on the outskirts of Montevideo Uruguay, this house designed by “Bercetche Estudio” shows great respect for the environment and, through a nice space distribution, takes advantage of it.
Two opaque volumes separated from each other generates a permeable “in-between” that gives rise to all the common activities of the house (Hall, living-room, dining-room, and kitchen) and connect it with the different boundaries of the land where it was built.
To the front the main street of medium traffic, to the right a children's package, to the left a single-family house and to the bottom a glen with a leafy vegetation.
For these different situations, the house responds with a particular set of volumes that generates different degrees of privacy. These volumes also contains the garage, laundry, and mechanical room.
Only the bedrooms have standard windows, with a homogeneous distribution on the facades and aligned with each other at the interior, allows a visual communication that crosses all the house.
It is an easy-to-read house, built with sustainable and economical materials, which prove that with well-manipulated basic components, an expressive and energy-efficient house can be made.
