HOSUE G&S
Barella Arquitectura
ARCHITECTS
Barella Arquitectura
ARCHITECTS AND LEAD ARCHITECTS
Marcelo José Barella, Inés Barella, Leandro Sosa
ENGINEERING AND CONSULTING > STRUCTURAL
Gustavo González, Gabriela Asís Ferri
TECHNICAL TEAM
María Agustina Sánchez, Sofía Rodeyro
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Sofía Corazza, Héctor Tarifa
MANUFACTURERS
Aluminios del Interior , Ferrocons, Feyro , Maestre Iluminación, Nanzer Climatización Integral
INTERIOR DESIGN
Barella Arquitectura
PHOTOGRAPHS
Rogert Berta
AREA
448 m²
YEAR
2025
LOCATION
Córdoba, Argentina
CATEGORY
Houses
English description provided by the architects.
The program addresses the use of a family that lived in an apartment in Buenos Aires and decided to move to Córdoba during the pandemic.
The land is located on the outskirts, in a gated community, in the southwest of the city, covering an area of 1500 m2, with a slight negative slope and a north-facing front.
The house is designed with a clear functional distribution that manifests in the volumetric composition.
One block for services, another for social areas, and another for private spaces, which are arranged in a "U" shape that surrounds a courtyard through which one enters.
This scheme allows for an adequate relationship between the function and orientation of each of the spaces.
The block of bedrooms is oriented towards the east, receiving morning sunlight, the service block faces west, and the social space has double frontage.
This social space, comprising the living room, dining room, and kitchen, opens to the north through a double-height window, connecting with the entrance courtyard, thereby allowing for optimal sunlight exposure, while to the south, it is completely integrated with the gallery.
Having a strong and direct connection with the outdoors, with greenery, is part of our culture, and it is always a premise in our projects.
We put a lot of work into these intermediate spaces (galleries), which are the shaded areas, the cool spaces, where the boundaries between the interior and exterior blur and begin to flow together.
A recurring theme that we work with extensively is the concept of threshold, understanding it as the transition, the passage from one place to another.
In this project, we extend the threshold of the main entrance of the house by creating a "promenade" that delineates the public from the private and invites reflection and presence.
In the pursuit of a continuous and fluid spatiality, we considered the experience of the journey to the home, where we also incorporated water as a symbolic and vital element.
The goal is for the act of entering to represent a conscious process, assigning a particular moment to both welcomes and farewells, which are considered significant events in the experience of inhabiting.
