Home View – Johnston Architect Rooted MarkLee & Diego

Located on the outskirts of Rosario, Argentine pampas in the landscape-the House View is designed from the possibilities and limitations of new residential uses in traditional rural areas.

The plot of 2113 m2 has a privileged corner peripheral position in front of a large eucalyptus grove.
The house is conceived as an object touched by the plain sensible, has its own logic but is able to learn and relate to specific features of the site.

Is conditioned by two conflicting desires:

1. relationships between household indoor and landscape scale.
2. achieve visual privacy conditions regarding future neighboring houses.

The perception of the surrounding landscape is organizing the program as a continuous succession of spaces in an upward spiral of 360 ° that accompanies the development of horizon. These spaces form a compact mass of two levels with a small footprint that preserves the soil. The formal and tectonic complexity of the house is the repetition of four alternating geometric erosions in each quadrant of the mass that reinforce the rotational direction of the project. In these vertices, the mass is depressed or off the ground, perceived as mild or heavy as it surrounds. The shape and position of erosion is also related geometrical demands tectonic concrete shell.

The facades are a succession dynamics of continuous surfaces and non-hierarchical where each plane of the facade is transformed successively into main and oblique surfaces reveals that anticipate the next front.
As a result of framing the best views of the landscape and provide the location of future openings neighboring houses take a provision rotational and alternate, starting with the access gallery on the ground floor to the west and culminating in the master bedroom window facing the east and the eucalyptus grove. In defining the openings are also taken into account the reduction of energy demands on the control depth, facilitate cross ventilation and provide natural light. By varying orientation, height and depth, each aperture captures a kind of light and different view of the landscape, providing changing relationships between interior and exterior.