Balsa Crosetto Piazzi . photos: © Marcos Guiponi
Córdoba, like other Latin American cities, finds it very difficult to establish friendly links between growth and its natural heritage. At the northwest end of the urban sprawl; Casa AG is located between the last natural reserve of the city and a small creek.
The typology is organized from the thickening of the wall facing the access street. This wall, opaque in its entirety, acquires a depth of 2 meters that allows it to accommodate the wet infrastructures. Once crossed, the interior spaces turn completely towards the porch that frames the first landscape with which the house is involved. The backyard.
Going up the staircase to the second floor, a window of oversized dimensions (3.40×2.60 mts) allows the inhabitants to interact with the vegetation of the creek. As a conclusion of the circulatory promenade, there is access to a terrace that allows extended views towards the San Martin Reserve, making this the place par excellence to understand the territory in which the project is inscribed.
Pursuing a geometric and material abstraction that does not compete with the surrounding context, the house is resolved almost entirely with a single exterior material. Walls and floors of compacted aggregate bricks avoid future maintenance costs while reducing the details on site, making it more economical in its construction.
Finally, Casa AG is in itself an architectural device capable of involving its inhabitants in political decisions on a territorial scale, extending the agency of the domestic into the public sphere.
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