Located on a farm in the north of Punta del Este, in the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, the house proposed by VDV Arquitectura is supported by the landscape in a respectful and simple way, serving as a companion to the enclave and accentuating its presence and horizontality.

Conceived as a large gabled roof, the project recognizes the typical image of a house while giving it a new meaning based on a broad program open to the landscape, which is organized axially.

The house by VDV Arquitectura creates a large central space to accommodate a functional but limited program, which concentrates the public area of ​​the house, arranging the rooms to the right of it and the services to the left, allowing the different rooms to be joined by a large horizontal window that runs along the entire façade, linking the interior of the house with the horizon and the surrounding landscape.

Through a subtle and non-possessive intervention of the territory, the house is supported by a system of punctual supports that support consecutive modulated porticos that support the roof and the enclosure, giving rise to a system that leaves a large horizontal opening that surrounds the skeleton and allows absolute continuity.

Dos Aguas House por VDV Arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli

Dos Aguas House por VDV Arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli.

Project description by VDV Arquitectura

Esta casa, ubicada en una chacra al norte de Punta del Este, en la República Oriental del Uruguay, se dispone como un objeto apoyado en el paisaje.

Sin ocultar su fisonomía busca ser la compañía más sistémica para un paisaje bucólico y horizontal. El techo a dos aguas reconoce la imagen típica de la casa, pero su disposición longitudinal, resignifica este concepto.

Pensada como una gran cubierta, el programa se organiza en su interior de manera axial. Un gran espacio central concentra el área pública y a su derecha dispone las habitaciones y a la izquierda los servicios. Un gran ventanal horizontal recorre toda la longitud del fondo para vincular cada ambiente con el horizonte.

Constructivamente la casa, mantiene su idea de ser lo más simple y lo menos posesiva del territorio, un sistema de apoyos puntuales soporta una serie de pórticos consecutivos y modulados que dan soporte a la estructura de cubierta y cerramiento, que se desarrollan en continuidad absoluta, envolviendo el esqueleto y liberando un gran vano horizontal al contrafrente.

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VDV Arquitectura. Lead architect.- Victo Della Vecchia.

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Pablo Engelman, Carola Luna.

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210 sqm.

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2023.

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La barra, Maldonado, Uruguay.

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Victor Della Vecchia. Buenos Aires, 1979. He is an architect from the Faculty of Architecture, Design, Art and Urbanism of the University of Morón (FADAU-UM, 2009); Real Estate Management (UTDT)

Until 2012 he was the Editorial Director of the Zona de Proyecto Magazine; he is the author of the research book PH Contemporáneo (2011).

He is currently a Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (2021), he was a full professor of Architecture I and III at the University of Palermo (2015/2018), he was Secretary of University Extension at the University of Palermo (2018/2019), professor of Design and Architecture II at the University of Moron (2004/2012), and a visiting professor at various universities and institutions abroad (IUAV Venice, Universidad Mayor, Chile, among others).

His work has been exhibited at the International Architecture Biennials of Venice, Buenos Aires and Chile; He has exhibited and given lectures on his work at IUAV Venice, the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, in Fortaleza (Ceara) Brazil, the Omina Foundation, Costa Rica, among others.

His architectural works, interiors and various publications have received multiple awards and recognitions, and have been published in numerous media in the most important national and international publishers and magazines (Phaidon, Actar, Wallpaper, Summa+, 1.100, Dezeen, Living, Clarin Arq, among others), and sold in museum stores (Tienda Malba). He is a Co-Founder of Híbrido, a platform for thinking about architecture, culture and the City.

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Published on: October 21, 2024
Cite: "Inhabiting the horizon. Dos Aguas House por VDV Arquitectura" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/inhabiting-horizon-dos-aguas-house-por-vdv-arquitectura> ISSN 1139-6415
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