Cabin In The Buenos Aires Delta
CABIN IN THE BUENOS AIRES DELTA
Matías Cosenza Arquitecto
ARCHITECTS
Matías Cosenza Arquitecto
LEAD ARCHITECT
Matías Cosenza
TEAM LEAD
Felipe Trinchin Borneo
TECHNICAL TEAM
Jose Luis Rodriguez
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Gaston Cleiman
MANUFACTURERS
FV, ferrum
PHOTOGRAPHS
Bruto Studio
AREA
150 m²
YEAR
2025
LOCATION
Dique Luján, Argentina
CATEGORY
Cabins & Lodges
English description provided by the architects.
At the untamed confluence of the Paraná River and the Uruguay River, where the waters flow into the vast Río de la Plata, a singular commission is established.
The landscape, a symphony of wetlands and scattered jungle green, evokes the unknown:
a primordial nature accessible only by waterway and living under the constant threat of floods.
Here, architecture does not seek to disappear but to assert itself; not to go unnoticed, but to engage in dialogue with the organic power of the place.
A system of stilts is chosen, an ancestral solution proven by humanity in similar environments, but here reinvented as a tectonic statement.
This matrix of industrialized poles, treated as a unified whole, accommodates domestic uses, forging a unique system.
It is a human expression that merges artificial elements and transformed natural resources with the immensity of the environment, establishing a profound material relationship between the built and the wild.
The convention of a stereotypical base that supports a box from below is abandoned in favor of a structure that rises, light and rooted at the same time, within the base instead of on top of it.
The system is governed by a strict modulation of 1.22 m (4 feet), materialized in sections of wood from Eucalyptus rostrata, a foreign species adapted to the region.
Its design facilitates transport and on-site assembly through fittings that maximize strength.
At the same time, an experiment is conducted with a humanized form: two fundamental cubes connected by one of their edges.
This sort of artificial forest, erected from the stilts as a formal expression, becomes the known place: a deliberate presence that poses before the untamed vastness of nature.
