The starting point of the project focuses on inhabiting the landscape from a direct and primitive contact. It is an isolated object that will be part of the mineral system of the site, taking as an aesthetic excuse the rocky condition of the outcrops that frame the singularity of the implantation. Where the link with … Read more
The Ventolera Refuge is an anomaly in the mountains, it is recognized as such, and it intends to inhabit and house it in an itinerant way. The geometry aims to create a contrast with the natural environment and builds a series of hierarchical frames that cut out and propose specific landscape segments.
The project is located in Villa Serrana in an elevated area of the mountains. The key to the project arises from the search to enhance the depth of the landscape on the ground. The access from the highest area of the land offered the possibility of using the house itself as a threshold, or transition … Read more
Villa Serrana is a mountain urbanization that has existed in the Department of Lavalleja for more than half a century, but it seems to have found its place of interest in the most recent decade for the renewed public in search of ¨the weekend house¨. Perhaps not in the terms to which we were traditionally … Read more
The project is located in Villa Serrana, in a wild area far from the most qualified areas of the urbanization and therefore with precarious infrastructure compared to the rest of the area. This condition of austerity that comes from the available infrastructures themselves gave the landscape a wild or almost unexplored rural sensation that we … Read more
On the land to be intervened, located near Laguna del Sauce, Maldonado, there was an abandoned construction that was previously used for the storage of forage and field tools. The construction had been carried out in traditional construction and although it was in disuse, much of its structure was in good condition. The client, who … Read more
