Architectural studio MAPA has accomplished Argentina’s first Passivhaus-certified residence, a home within the San Fernando Delta that’s lifted on stilts to accommodate periodic flooding.
Named Home within the Delta, the three-bedroom house on the banks of the Paraná Mini river within the Buenos Aires metropolitan space was raised on a timber construction to guard the interiors from floods.
MAPA, a studio with places of work in Uruguay and Brazil, described the house as “an amphibious home – constructed excessive above the bottom to coexist with the periodic flooding on the banks of the Paraná Mini, an earthy river with a mild move”.
Based on the studio, the primary entry to the positioning is by way of this waterway. “The river features as a road, sq. and public house,” MAPA defined. “[The] group is constructing a brand new idea of urbanity in strict reference to nature.”
On the longer aspect of the home, which faces the water, MAPA included a full-length deck that steps all the way down to the encircling property.
From this aspect of the wood-framed constructing, giant glass openings give out onto the lined out of doors house. “A system of ordered balconies controls the daylight and expands the inside areas in the direction of the environment,” mentioned MAPA.
Every of the house’s bedrooms thus has instant entry to the outside, as does the kitchen, residing, and eating room, that are at one finish of the oblong construction.
The gridded framework of the construction is seen on the primary facade and was constructed with laminated pine beams, a course of that may create giant structural framing items with reclaimed or waste lumber.
The partitions of the home have been constructed of Structural Insulated Panels (SIP), a modular building materials that may supply excessive ranges of insulation and is well assembled in distant areas.
“The development, strongly [influenced] by the gap from the technique of manufacturing of town, is conceived as a set of prefabricated parts able to being transported in small boats,” defined MAPA.
The undertaking is in closing phases of Passivhaus certification. Whether it is awarded, the undertaking would be the first in Argentina to earn this certification, which acknowledges properties constructed with lowered dependency on synthetic heating and cooling.
To fulfill this certification, MAPA designed an hermetic envelope with greater ranges of insulation. The studio additionally took under consideration the general footprint of the house, in addition to its place relative to the trail of the solar.
“The refuge was designed in line with a set of passive bioclimatic management methods, with the purpose of consciously inhabiting the panorama,” mentioned MAPA.
Different properties in Buenos Aires embrace an all-white house by Colle-Croce, and a residence by Barrio Villanueva Arquitectos with a powerful cantilever that marks the doorway of the property.
The pictures is by Leonardo Finotti.
