VP House is a concrete summer house located in Costa Esmeralda, in a seaside neighborhood 13 km north of the city of Pinamar and four hours away from Buenos Aires. The client commissioned a typical concrete summer house for him and his family, but he also requested that the house should accommodate standard uses to allow it to be rented out.
The farmhouse retreat for an urban developer integrates minimalist elements into a modest 1850’s farmhouse. Over the years, well-intentioned accretions—ornamental dormers, an incongruous addition, and a cavernous porch—had cloaked the house in a dog’s dinner.
Built on the slope of Mount Shefford, the residence bridges an aerial view on one side and an ascending, rugged topography, populated by rocks and maples, on the other. The initial idea for this project was to merge with the mountain, to nestle into the terrain until it becomes one with the residence.
Idyllically set among Victoria’s coastal bushland on the Mornington Peninsula, this was a replacement building for a fiberglass shack that has grown into a permanent residence and a coastal holiday home for extended family.
This one level concrete house is located in a quiet area of Brasilia’s outskirts. The aim was to construct a 280m² house to be mostly used during weekends, providing spaces for leisure and socializing. The major challenge was to distribute storehouse in a reduced plot area shaped in a trapezoid form and open to the greenery as much as possible.
The clients bought a south-facing derelict fisherman’s cottage overlooking Patterson inlet and Ulva island that they wanted to transform into a cosy vacation spot where they could entertain guests.
Springing from the hillside, Riversbend is oriented around a lazy turn in the East Gallatin River. The sleek forms are embedded in the undulating site, prominent yet respectful of the natural hill crest, creating dynamic views as one moves through the landscape.
Programmatically, the Northern Lake Home is composed of two primary massings separated by a glass core. Splaying out to the lake beyond and nestled into a natural swale, the public spaces contour along the landscape blurring the distinction between its built and natural environments.
