Intimate House

Intimate House
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Intimate House 

Karlen + Clemente

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Arq. Monica Karlen – Arq. Juan Pablo Clemente

LOCATION
Rio Tercero, Argentina

AREA
414 M²

YEAR
2022

MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Sika, Acindar, Acqua, Alba, Aluar, Duratop, Fv, Holcim Argentina, Ilva,
Johnson Acero Sa, Palmar Sa, Trimble, Ferrum

DESIGN TEAM
Arq. Agustina Falistocco – Arq. Ricardo Morandini – Arq. Melisa Perotti – Fernanda Mercado

CATEGORY
Houses

ENVIRONMENT

The irregularly shaped land is located near the ring road of Rio Tercero and has access to streets at both ends.

Intimate House
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Intimate House
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The implementation premise is to locate the mass built around patios, seeking to generate different sensations and links with the private exterior according to the use of each space.

USE

Functionally, the project is essentially a permanent-use dwelling.

Intimate House
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Intimate House
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On one of the fronts, there is a double garage and an exterior entrance hall, which together with a large concrete wall make up the façade, giving a sensation of horizontality that goes from one end of the terrain to the other.

The house is made up of two blocks articulated by means of a "bridge" with views towards a Japanese patio.

The first block, oriented towards the south face of the land, is made up of the entrance hall, double garage, study, 2 bedrooms with bathroom and the master suite with bathroom and dressing room that are arranged around a light patio and with its North face open to the Japanese patio.

The second block makes up the social area of the house, which is accessed through the "bridge" that serves as a hinge and allows rotation and a new perpendicular arrangement of the rest of the house.

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Intimate House
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In it, the rooms are distributed, beginning with the living room-dining room-kitchen, barbecue area, and social bathroom.

The barbecue area opens onto a gallery connected to the reflecting pool and the central patio. Finally, towards the other front of the lot is a secondary vehicular entrance, accompanied by a storage deposit configuring the service façade.

Intimate House
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Intimate House
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CHARACTER

The Constitution of the form is part of a general volume that is undermined by a series of patios with different qualities and privacy, depending on the environments that surround them. On both fronts, the project seeks unity, regardless of the other interior functions.

For this, an exposed concrete wall that runs the width of the terrain is undermined by blind pvc carpentry that is implemented as a “skin” to join the fronts toward the street. At the same time, 2 large flower beds are formed that accentuate the idea of the horizontality of the house.

Intimate House
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Intimate House
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The materials were chosen for their low maintenance; for this, exposed concrete framed in boards, stone, pvc carpentry, and black ironwork finishes were chosen.


Intimate House
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