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Architects:
00L - Area:
140m² -
Year:
2023 -
Photographs:
Juan Cruz Paredes
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Text description provided by the architects. Inhabiting the open landscape of the Córdoba hinterland calls for an act of spatial delimitation and the establishment of a domestic order. Located in La Bolsa, this low-cost residential project adopts the patio as the generative principle of its architectural layout, drawing on a dwelling type deeply rooted in the history of architecture. Its references include Jørn Utzon's celebrated Kingo Houses and Alvar Aalto's Muuratsalo Experimental House, both of which explore the L-shaped house organized around an open space, establishing an articulated relationship between domestic intimacy, landscape, and collective life.
The patio house is, above all, a project devoted to the domestic life of open spaces. The patio is conceived as a room open to the sky, both the geometric and functional center around which the other spaces are arranged. The house unfolds in an L-shaped configuration, with each wing serving a distinct function: one accommodates the shared spaces of everyday life, while the other contains the sleeping quarters and more intimate spaces fo...