The project by Estudio Fernandez Renati organizes its spaces around an interior patio surrounded by ramps that connect the two levels of the home and generate interior-exterior transitions throughout its entire length. The social spaces of the program are located on the upper floor, with better lighting and ventilation, while the private spaces are located on the basement floor, which visually connected with the vegetation creates the sensation of being inserted in the middle of the grove.
Inside the house we find a railing piece of furniture that helps free up space on the floor, where wood and glass walls are clear protagonists. The brick is related to the ground on the basement floor, while the concrete and wood seem to ascend from the ground to the upper floor of the house.
Inside the house we find a railing piece of furniture that helps free up space on the floor, where wood and glass walls are clear protagonists. The brick is related to the ground on the basement floor, while the concrete and wood seem to ascend from the ground to the upper floor of the house.
Rita House by Estudio Fernandez Renati. Photograph by Javier Agustin Rojas.
Project description by Estudio Fernandez Renati
Rita is No. 2 in a series of organic houses, such as Chloé, Borja and Filippa. All with the same objective, to develop an exercise that lies in materializing and repeating a set of design operations that in the studio we call the “Housing Manifesto”.-
- Internal courtyard
- Lighting and cross ventilation.
- Spatial relations.
- Railing furniture.
- Architectural tour.
- Access to the roof.
Rita House by Estudio Fernandez Renati. Photograph by Javier Agustin Rojas.
The land is 2,500 sqm and is located in a country club on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Site where aged trees predominate, which was respected in its entirety for the location of the house.
The axis of the work is an internal patio surrounded by ramps that connect covered spaces with other semi-covered ones, generating a fluid transition route between the spaces that are inhabited.
Rita House by Estudio Fernandez Renati. Photograph by Javier Agustin Rojas.
The house was implanted at the bottom of the land, to receive sun throughout the day. We decided to reverse the traditional taking of sides by locating the private program on the ground floor and the social one on the top floor. We characterize the rooms with a private, calm and tight space, which gives the sensation of being inserted in a forest. While the living room rises to be at the height of the treetops and generates cross ventilation and lighting throughout the day, allowing access from this space to the entire house. On the second level there is a study with independent access and a room for guests, culminating the tour.
The construction is bare and lacks pretentious materials, all the luxury is given by the nature that surrounds it. The materials used predominate.- concrete, brick and wood.
