The house designed by VDV Arquitectura is developed on a single floor, where the horizontal roof joins and articulates different interior patios with the aim of filtering, sifting and controlling the light of the interior spaces according to the privacy needs of each room in the program.
While the front façade is protected, hiding the house by stone walls that also serve as structural support for the roof. The roof, a single piece that has a hardwood cladding on its outer perimeter, on the rear façade is combined with the glazing that shows the interior of the house and opens completely towards the landscape.
PM House by VDV Arquitectura. Photograph by Federico Cairoli.
Project description by VDV Arquitectura
The work is located in a semi -rural environment only 5 km from the sea, in Manantiales, Uruguay, with great population growth in recent years. The challenge consisted of projecting and building a single -family home at a distance, modular, with a mixed construction system.
The house is fully developed at a level, protected by a Great horizontal cover that covers all programs, articulating internally by a series of patios that filter, sifter and control the light as well as the privacy between the different functions of the environments and the outer space, generating visual multiples to the nature of the surrounding landscape.
The opaque and heavy front organized by a stone wall that also serves as a structural support of the large horizontal cover, only discontinuous to leave access.
The house configures a series of successive planes that close and open the space, generating a tour of the user that is discovering, from the social to the private, each environment and its uses naturally.
Materially, the house maintains the coherence, under this extended cover, to use a single material in every outside perimeter made by a hard wood coating that is combined with a series of glazed cloths absolutely transparent to the landscape.
It is this condition, that of the landscape, the catalyst element of the proposal, establishing that horizontal rigor on the plain that crosses with its flush light the average plane of the house, achieving endless lights and shadows that inhabit each space.
