H1 HOUSE
Implanted in the forests of the Argentine coast, the house, conceived as temporary housing, translates the most significant intentions and searches of the study. Combining three different typologies and maximizing the capacity of each, it provides specific responses to every demand of the context where this work unfolds, seeking to reflect a coastal identity that is not referenced in obvious or foreign aesthetics, but rather emerges from the materials and construction capabilities most commonly used during the last period in this area: wood, concrete, and iron.
Embedded in the terrain and addressing the permitted limits, House H1 is summarized in two elevated volumes surrounded by tall wild pines and connected by a bridge that links the private areas with the common wing, which opens with a 17-meter extension glazed towards the forest, connecting visually and physically the back with the nature reserve. To this limit, moreover, we add a space commonly referred to in Japanese culture as "engawa," to reinforce this interior-exterior relationship, composed of an extension of the roof as an overhang and a continuous balcony in continuation with the interior flooring, taking advantage of the 6 meters of the metal frame and avoiding remnants.
To understand the functional development, looking at the floor plan, we must conceive it symmetrically and perpendicular to the longitudinal arrangement of the volumes, placing in sequence: use, support, circulation, support, use. While to understand the structural and constructive conception, we must focus on the section, in addition to leveraging the terrain to accentuate heights, allow passages, or generate direct connections with the exterior, detaching the house from the sand by raising concrete walls, which allows smooth movement, as recommended for the preservation of dunes, supporting on these the metal beams and columns that would sustain the only level of use and also the wooden roof that has a single slope, thus avoiding any obstruction of pine needles in the rainwater drainage.
Thus, the structure and language of the house are formed, appealing to an evident sincerity in which no element of it is disconnected from the general or particular logic.
