Estudio Galera

Casa CMMY

Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina

Casa CMMY

Estudio Galera

ARCHITECTS
Estudio Galera

LEAD ARCHITECT
Ariel Galera, Cesar Amarante, Francisco Villamil, Luisina Noya

ALUMINUM MILLWORK
Alumia

CONCRETE SUPPLIER
Pasalto

WOOD SUPPLIER
De Las Misiones

SANITARY MATERIAL
Mastergas

HEATING
Carilo Ingeniería

PAINT
Sagitario

CONTRACTOR
Bauer Hermanos

PROGRAM / USE / BUILDING FUNCTION
Single House

MARBLE
Lavige

MANUFACTURERS
Acindar, Aluar, Ternium

IRON
Plastigas

PHOTOGRAPHS
Diego Medina

AREA
275 M²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Pinamar, Argentina

CATEGORY
Houses

From the outside, CMMY stands as a rigid single volume with recesses and folds. On the inside, however, the typology is completely decomposed to generate spaces which articulate through the air; it is precisely this vacuum (the air) the one in charge of linking the living spaces.

Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina
Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina

The air in CMMY House envelops it at the time that it is the essence and the principle of its uniqueness.

The imperceptible slope of the natural terrain passes free under the feet. The residence stands on a platform that contacts the natural ground by means of cylindrical concrete pylons and creates the first structural link between the terrain and the built work.

Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina
Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina

The difference between the interior elevation of the house and the street level, together with the distance and vegetation, act as a privacy filter. The triple central height is the nexus to which the main rooms converge as in a community or vertical courtyard.

The stairs are not simple connectors. Instead, their development and form seem to furrow the air as they connect the first floor with a balcony viewpoint that gives scale to the access and climb to the top level (attic). Here, a work and meeting space is located: a future studio upholstered with books and vinyls.

Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina
Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina

In this sense, the staircase mediates between domestic life and work. To empty the center of the house it was necessary to organize the program on the perimeter, bearing in mind the slope. The connection to the central space was established by direct passage, door or slit depending on the need.

CMMY stands as a hybrid between two languages: the outside reflects what most people would imagine as a gabled house in the woods, while its flexible and versatile interior responds to contemporary forms of living.

Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina
Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina

A winter garden positioned to the west conserves heat to distribute it in the house in winter and contains it as a shield in summer. It, thus, turns into a thermal regulation device that enhances energy efficiency in a compact house with an envelope composed of several insulating layers.

The project was organized around common premises such as ensuring low maintenance. Wood folds and is protected under large eaves of a roof that becomes a parapet. The result is a single volume, a large constructed apparatus made up of small pieces that are part of a combined system that make up a whole.

Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina
Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina

If geometry defines the way of inhabiting spaces, the structure makes geometry possible. Concrete piles are the point of contact with the sand and the support base for a structure formed by pine beams on which a metal structure is assembled.

The structure takes the bending stresses creating the structural 'cage' where the different layers that make up floors and panels are assembled-on site.

All the work was done by hand by local cementitians, blacksmiths and carpenters: from the concrete made in a spinning top and molded with PVC pipes to the assembly of the metal structure and of each roof and wall panel.

Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina
Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina
Casa CMMY
© Diego Medina

CMMY stands as a cold, geometrically rigorous container that offers shelter from inclement weather while allowing the development of a fluid, warm and flexible spatiality inside.


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Estudio Galera
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Estudio Galera
B7167 Cariló, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina