Marble House is located in the neighborhood El Golf ofNordelta and its backgroundhas continuity with a golf course that ensures a total visual opening to the surrounding landscape. Naturally the most obvious information to take into account is the one offered by the terrain: orientation, visuals, access and context. But in this case the formal exploration and the searchof new forms determine thecenterof the project. The idea of the house and the response to these conditions join and finally converge in a balanced way as a translation of our architectural thought.

The search of an own language is based on the use of clear volumes supported one on another. Pure forms with the possibility of being slid, worked and emptied, result in places to be inhabited. At first glancethree clear compositional pieces stand out, these correspond to each of the programmatic volumes of the house, stand out: Social area - Private area - Service area. The programmatic differentiation is given, this time, volumetrically and not through materials, since the travertine marble was used as the only covering and as an integrating element of the project. Large plates of travertine invade the envelope of the house, causing it to become practically a monolithic element. Its termination is uneven and grooved, the tonal variations along its veins and its imperfections not only give warmth to the pure lines of the house, but also gives its name.

The building appear without openings, or cuts, and some of their faces dematerialize with large glazed panels, keeping the continuity of slabs and walls to generate theenvelope. The main volume floats on the upper floor and rests on two others on the ground floor that move one towards the front and one towards the side. This volume contains the main suite facing the golf course, and two more suites facing the front. The lower onesslide in such a way that the upper volume floats towards the front generating the semi-covered access, and towards the quiet part of the building creating a large gallery stripped of supports.

The blindest volume that grows towards the front contains the service and detaches itself from the ground with a large bracket that grows diagonally and shows the garage. A“tongue” that floats on a water mirror delimited by the accessareareceives us in front of the house.Upon entering, a double height slit is generated in the meeting between the volumes that are the centerpiece of the house and contains the vertical core that links the floors. The social area lies below the first floor volumeandgrows in the entire width of the field. In the living room a large plane of glass leans toward the backyard as if the interior space wanted to grow out. The integration of materials in ceilings, walls and floors enhance the dematerialization of limits, creating a fluency of spaces.

Furthermore, every Interior floor is transformed into outdoor, allowing an immediate relationship with the pool that colonizes the outdoor and links the house with the garden. The flexibility of the volumes allow thepresence of inclined planes  and diagonal cuts that enhancethe volumeand through overhangs filter direct sunlight where it isneeded. Energy efficiency and passive design are essential in this kind ofbuildings. North is located toward the front, that is why large overhangs protect interior from vertical sun rays. On the back of the house, the situation is contrary, the tilt is placed inorder to absorb the greater amount of natural lightto the master suite.

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Architect: OON Architecture
Photography: Alejandro Peral