Concrete House in Argentina, an Essential Property of BAK Architects

Concrete House is a vacation home simple, austere and interior construction basics. Its strength lies in the materials aesthetics, crude and naked, they get to give the home a natural and welcoming. A real demonstration of the famous and not always well spent “less is more.” The location was unbeatable. In a pine forest of Mar Azul, a seaside town located 400 kilometers south of Buenos Aires, the land was located on a slope with good sea views and secluded location of the small resort town. But the budget was reduced, the short-term monitoring capabilities of the architects minimal due to the distance between the blue sea and the capital of Argentina. With these premises, Maria Victoria Besonias, Guillermo de Almeida and Luciano Kruk of BAK ArquitecotsHave designed this house with an emphasis on the construction of concrete, a material role in making even the furniture. The house, only 90 m2 is raised as the construction of basic forms with a very rational distribution in the interior, and rough finishes where the marks on the concrete formwork are about the only concession aesthetics. The furniture has also been raised with extreme simplicity, and the basic parts are integrated into the work, and help you make the interior space. The house, an orthogonal volume of a single plant, has been placed on a small natural ground level slopes. Half-buried part of the construction in the area has gotten steeper maximum integration with the landscape. The plant, rectangular in shape, visually extending through the main front has been opened to the view through large windows. Natural light fills the interior, which extends through a wooden floor that creates a small terrace outside. So, the house, rather than integrated into the landscape, get part of it. Without even bothering to uneven terrain, the volume of a single plant appears to have been always in the middle of the pine forest. The interior layout of the house is also very simple: the main space-lounge and bedrooms have been located by the front open in succession, the service areas, kitchen and bathrooms are located next to the front sunk in field. The main entrance is through the large windows of the room, although a small back door entrance, with less prominence. The interior furniture is designed for the occasion by the architects. The dining table, fireplace, cabinets and shelves to help organize the space in the house are made of concrete and also integrated into the work. The remaining free furniture has been built with Canadian pine reclaimed wood from packing cases.