Casa sobre el arroyo en Mar del Plata

This house was primarily conceived as a form in space that does not override nature. The form is at the same time, in its entirety, a structure. And this structure is shown naked, in its authentic quality: the concrete that makes it up is visible, hammered and chemically treated. Form, structure and quality are therefore one and the same here. Esta casa fue encarada primordialmente como una forma en el espacio que no anulara la naturaleza. La forma es al mismo tiempo, en su totalidad, estructura. Y esta estructura se muestra al desnudo, en su calidad auténtica: el hormigón que la constituye está a la vista, martelinado y tratado químicamente. Forma, estructura y calidad son pues aquí una sola cosa. The house is built on a plot of land that forms part of a beautiful park. The land, crossed by a stream that divides it in two, can only be accessed from one side. The stream runs through a beautiful hollow. The house has made the meeting of the two parts of the land and stands on its main feature, where nature is at its most lyrical. There, in contrast, the human work is placed. La casa está construida en un terreno que forma parte de un parque de gran belleza. El terreno, cruzado por un arroyo que lo divide en dos, tiene acceso por un solo lado. El arroyo corre por una hondonada preciosa. La casa ha hecho la reunión de las dos partes del terreno y está sobre su accidente principal, donde la naturaleza llega a su mayor lirismo. Allí, por contraposición, está colocada la obra humana. Its three-dimensional structure is purely spatial. In the history of architecture, it is the first attempt at a truly three-dimensional structure that works as an integral harmonious whole and not as a group of juxtaposed pieces. The curved sheet works simultaneously, by means of the vertical partitions, with the flat slab of the main floor and with the railing-beams that surround it.