Minimalist House Design in Monospace Form That Blends with the Forest

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Area: 250 m²
Year: 2023
Photographs:Juan Segundo Diaz Dopazo
Manufacturers: Barbieri, NOI, Peirano, Placa Guatambú, Quadri, Shou Sugi Ban Argentina
Lead Architects: Arq. Ayelen Olivieri, Arq. Juan Segundo Diaz Dopazo
Interior Design: Maria Cecilia Pombo
Photographs: Juan Segundo Diaz Dopazo
City: Villa La Angostura
Country: Argentina
I grew up in Patagonia, and then I studied in Buenos Aires where I met Aye. I always knew that I was going to go back to the south somehow, it really is a special place in the world with unspoiled landscapes that you don't see anywhere else; What I never imagined is that we would have the opportunity to design some houses for my parents, in the middle of an Arrayanes forest.
The challenge was to build a boutique-scale tourist complex (250 Square meter), in a native forest of Coihues and Arrayanes, with a steep slope, views, and on the shores of Lake Correntoso, an extremely natural and quiet space.
We propose modules of "landscape cabins" for two and three people, which make up one more element in the forest. Melting into it, with a controlled randomness, sharing the same language, but with small differences between them.
They found their place where there was no arboreal vegetation, in those vacant spaces. From there, our main objective: An architecture that coexists with the forest, without the need to cut it down. We achieve a spatiality that attracts, that captivates, that melts the limits between the interior and the native forest; in a few square meters.
Each cabin, then, forms a monospace, separated into half floors with large strategic windows that expand the space to the outside, taking advantage of the low and leafy crown of the Myrtles not only to make the user feel as part of the forest but also to generate privacy between the volumes and common spaces of the complex.