House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart

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Mar del Plata, Argentina
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  172
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2019
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Obralinda
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Casa Blanco, Cerrosud, Pasalto, Pintureria "Del centro"
  • Lead Architects: Guillermo Elgart, Silvia Tammone
  • Design Team: Juan Albarenque, Andrés López
  • Clients: Matías Strick
  • Engineering: Nicolas Martín Vivona
  • Collaborators: Juan Manuel Blanco Peralta, Juan Icarde
  • City: Mar del Plata
  • Country: Argentina
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House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Exterior Photography
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Text description provided by the architects. The site is located in a closed residential villa called “Las Prunas”, a green lung in the South of Mar del Plata, Argentina. The area presents a heavily wooded land, facing the North to the front and a slight level increase towards the center of the block.

House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Exterior Photography, Facade
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House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Exterior Photography
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The most valuable thing lies in the Eucalyptus forest that resides there. The objective is to not touch any of it, but instead, to be part of it. We managed to work the maximum perimeter permitted in the site, resulting in a shell who embraces everything, giving us a spatial relation where interior and exterior coexist. A shell of concrete that starts at ground level and ends on the top of the trees.

House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Exterior Photography
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House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Interior Photography, Wood, Beam
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A second element appears a surface on which the shell lies. Sometimes a stairway, sometimes a ramp, that blends and melds the floor level, transforming it into an extensive promenade. With all the features of Claude Parent’s space, where being and walking become the same.

House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Interior Photography
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House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Interior Photography, Beam
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Lastly, to the walkable fold, volumes are poised and holes were created (patios intertwined with trees) defining and enclosing off private living sectors. All these spaces expand in rhythm with the different levels of the outer spiral shell and take you to the garden terrace as the culmination point of the walkthrough, featuring nature's domain.

House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Interior Photography
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INVESTIGATION

A connection to nature is the beginning of this work. To create a space that is its own, protected and private; defending itself from its neighborhood. Like armor protecting the wearer’s heart. 

House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Interior Photography, Beam
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We worked to create an element that catches the space inside and below it. Where the line between interior and exterior flows and moves freely. 

Circulation paths and spatial relations. Constant vanishing points are featured in all directions through the massive concrete mass.

House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Interior Photography, Stairs
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House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Interior Photography, Beam
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Investigating the multiplicity of spatial situations was the premise of this work. The house develops itself without a definition of levels, you are simply in the space. One can’t say that you are on the ground level or on the first floor or…

House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Interior Photography
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The first section is molded to the natural shape of the terrain and becomes the entrance. Or not, if you decide to walk along the spiral of the shell making your way to the center of the house. All the while understanding that the center is a space where the boundary between interior and exterior is undefined.

House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Exterior Photography
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The house is a journey, it is being at any level, outside and inside, under or above, like climbing the limbs of a sturdy tree.

House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Interior Photography, Column
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The most searched relation is a spatial one. The omnipresent shell links all spaces and gives order to them. Everyone and everything is under her presence. The house is the folds and the ramps; both of which weave their way inside of it. Taking us to different places of whom look at each other and feel the tension between the exterior surface and lines of communication. Your sight travels across various levels, always looking toward the green at the heart of the home. All of these visual leaks give meaning to the chosen typology.

House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Exterior Photography, Fence
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House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart - Exterior Photography
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Cite: "House 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart" [Casa 81 / TAM - Guillermo Elgart] 08 Apr 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/959746/house-81-tam-guillermo-elgart> ISSN 0719-8884

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