RoMa House
Pedro Ignacio Yáñez + Ignacio Bóscolo + Guayra
ARCHITECTS
Guayra, Ignacio Bóscolo, Pedro Ignacio Yáñez
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Estudio Alfie
LEAD ARCHITECT
Ignacio Bóscolo, Pedro Ignacio Yáñez, Norberto Nenninger, Paola Salaberri
COLLABORATORS
Mateo Mainardi, Carolina Recondo, Valentina Li
SANITARY INSTALLATIONS ADVISOR
Alfredo Aguilar
MANUFACTURERS
Carpeal, Ilva, Quadri, Silla
PHOTOGRAPHS
Pedro Ignacio Yáñez
AREA
2023 m²
YEAR
2025
LOCATION
Béccar, Argentina
CATEGORY
Houses
English description provided by the architects.
Casa RoMa is based on a typical premise of two clients, Rocío and Mariano, of how to achieve spacious spaces with a small square footage.
With this objective, they explored a compact house where, through a small footprint, they maximized the size of the surrounding garden.
In this sense, the careful placement of certain volumes defines a continuous space that connects seamlessly with the surrounding garden.
The goal is to constantly optimize the long perspectives afforded by the very limits of the enclosed lot. At times, the exterior spaces merge with the interior, and vice versa.
As a result, the boundary between public and private blurs, calling into question the very essence of this type of project in private condominiums in the north of Buenos Aires.
To achieve this continuous space, the number of isolated objects is minimized, integrating all service and storage elements into these volumes, both on the ground floor and on the upper floor, where the most private areas of the house are located.
The walls cease to be simple walls and become containing walls.
The same reduction in resources is reflected in the use of materials, where a sober color palette of different shades of gray predominates on both interior and exterior walls, materialized with industrialized clay and ceramic bricks and lacquered fronts in the same tone, and a cement flooring alongside exposed concrete slabs that combine perfectly with the warmth provided by the incense wood.
Finally, the couple has two twin children, a boy and a girl, plus another younger daughter.
The decision to create a "double" room with the possibility of being closed off in the future, plus a separate bedroom, allows Rocío and Mariano to have different ways of grouping the youngest members of the family, while the couple's privacy remains unchanged in their suite, which features, beyond their bedroom, a large walk-in closet and a generously divided bathroom.
