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Argentinian architect Malvina Zayat has accomplished a white dwelling for herself and her household that’s lifted above a sloped website and enters into “an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds”.

The residence sits inside a local forest within the city of Salsipuedes, which lies about 30 kilometers from town of Córdoba.

Malvina Zayat has created an elevated residence in Córdoba

Zayat – founding father of the native agency Malvina Zayat Structure Studio – lives there together with her husband and two kids.

Accessed by way of a cobblestone road, the house is perched on a hilly property with intensive views of the panorama. The constructing is elevated and rendered in white, serving to “set up an intimate dialogue with the sky and clouds”.

A person walking along an elevated walkway around a house
The home was constructed for herself and her household

“Positioned within the central sector of the land, with its lengthy aspect going through north, it seems as a white prism, levitating over the mountain and getting misplaced within the clouds,” stated the architectural studio.

Rectangular in plan, the house is lifted up by metal helps. On the west finish, the constructing hovers 3.5 metres above a sheltered parking space.

A lady looking out from a porch
It’s lifted on metal helps and wrapped in white screens

A lot of the structural system consists of prefabricated steel components that have been assembled on-site.

The inspiration and flooring slab are fabricated from concrete – a choice knowledgeable by “the necessity to accumulate warmth within the mass of the slab when the winter solar enters the inside area from the north”.

A person in a kitchen with wood cabinetry
The home is linear in plan and accessed by way of a dangling staircase

Facades include white-painted steel and stretches of glass. The entrance elevation has a protracted deck, or gallery, lined with folding steel screens.

“A system of folding panels attenuates the winds within the gallery and filters the entry of solar from the west in summer time,” the workforce stated.

A living room clad in wood cabinetry
The complete south aspect of the residing space is lined with storage

“On the similar time, it ensures the safety of the house when its customers aren’t there.”

From the parking space, a dangling staircase takes guests upward to the deck. From right here, one enters the house by way of a sliding picket door.

A porch that opens into a home
A spacious porch wraps across the perimeter

The general entry sequence is “an expertise that begins in touch with the earth and ends within the air”.

Inside, one finds a linear plan with a communal area at one finish of the house and a personal space with two bedrooms occupying the opposite.

Between the 2 zones is a service island that’s vented and illuminated from above. Water is offered by rainwater that’s saved in cisterns beneath the home.

The complete south aspect of the inside is lined with a storage unit that meets practical wants whereas additionally including thickness to the constructing envelope. The north and west sides speak in confidence to the outside, offering a way of growth.

A person sitting in a bedroom
Eucalyptus plywood was used all through

The restrained materials palette contains concrete flooring with a vinyl end and Brazilian granite for the kitchen counter tops. Eucalyptus plywood was used for the partitions, ceilings, doorways and built-in furnishings.

“The incidence of sunshine on the vermillion-coloured wooden panelling generates a scenography spatial expertise that culminates within the coronary heart of the house: the social space, in complete communion with the mountains,” the workforce stated.

Córdoba is the capital of the Argentinian province of the identical title. Different tasks within the area embody an remoted home by Nicolás Barrionuevo and Juan Villanueva that options operable picket screens and a concrete and stone home by Nanzer + Vitas that’s meant to resemble a medieval village.

The pictures is by Gonzalo Viramonte.


Undertaking credit:

Architect: Malvina Zayat Structure Studio
Design workforce: Malvina Zayat, Natalia Lucía Ruiz Venicio
Structural calculation: Edgar Moran

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