Victor Della Vecchia's project organizes the house on three floors. One below ground level and two above ground level, with two rectangular volumes superimposed perpendicularly. The social program of the house is located on the access floor, with great permeability both to the façade and to the interior area that facilitates continuous views in any direction and cross ventilation.
The meeting point between the upper and lower volumes is especially interesting, where a double-height void accompanies the vertical circulation.
The most private areas sit on the upper floor, where you can access a pleasant garden on the ground floor roof, a privileged viewing point, to enjoy the surrounding vegetation.
The house is built in exposed concrete and wood, with a closing system, also made of wood, that filters the large glass wall panels allowing control of the views and solar protection.
Casa FEN by Victor Della Vecchia. Photograph by Federico Cairoli.
Project description by Victor Della Vecchia
A viewpoint, a house.
Located in a semi-urbanized area the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires on an exempt and irregular plot, surrounded by lush vegetation, the project for the FEN house is conceived as an intermediary of the landscape.
It materializes in two superimposed and perpendicular planes. While the lower prism houses the social areas and the pool. In the center, with cross ventilation and open on both sides, the living room is developed; this social space has a full relationship with the surrounding garden and expands through a large continuous gallery. On the other hand, the upper plane gathers the bedrooms and other private spaces and is positioned perpendicularly, generating views of its plot and a semi-covered space towards the rear.
In addition, the lower plane, the pool functions as a water mirror that reflects the landscape and introduces it into the interior environment. At the meeting point between the upper and lower volumes, vertical circulation and a double-height void give scale to the space.
Casa FEN by Victor Della Vecchia. Photograph by Federico Cairoli.
Simultaneously, the roof of the ground floor is used as a green expansion of the first level, returning to the ground what has been taken and generating a new landscape, a new elevated ground, making the entire project dimension an expansion and viewpoint that interacts with new vegetation.
Materially, the house is resolved in polished concrete and exposed wood for the planes and the structural system, generating a unification of spaces and enhancing the horizontality of the lot.
A system of hardwood shutters allows controlling views to the front and opens inward to the lot. These shutters are developed as a filter of folding panels to control open and glazed spaces that interact with the exterior, controlling privacy, light, and shadows.
