Casa Bosque is located in Martinez, Buenos Aires, a very green residential neighborhood.

The lot on which Casa Bosque is implanted was a portion of the garden of an old mansion. Nature was, without a doubt, the hostess of the place, we wanted to maintain the feeling of being inside that lush garden on which we began to project, this was our premise when designing, enhancing the play of light and shadows proposed by the treetops that surround it.

Due to the small size of the lot and being a house between party walls, we did not have enough free land to build large open spaces, therefore, it was decided that the project should function entirely as a garden, blurring the boundaries between inside and outside, and making the house itself act as part of the exterior landscape. To achieve this, the walls of the house were designed with fluid organic forms with textures and shades of tree bark so that walking through it is like being immersed in a forest. To achieve this we developed an exposed concrete pigmented in brown tones with brushed board formwork that between the knots of the wood and the visual richness of the exposed concrete give us that natural texture of bark and in turn the nobility of the material that avoids future maintenance.

These organic structures are the support of the house and contrast with the smooth texture of gray concrete trays that are embedded in unevenness and give the project the necessary orthogonality because it is a house between party walls. These slabs that seem to float on the curved partitions are in turn the vegetation supports that at the top of the entire house allow bringing nature to every corner and bring life to these concrete trunks.

The organization of the house offers different approaches to the landscape, understanding its layers through different frames, the light filtered by the vegetation and the architecture modify the spaces as the hours go by. It is a house that allows itself to be colonized by the landscape until they become inseparable, that allows itself to be transformed by nature and the passage of time, until it is no longer perceived where one begins and the other ends, as if it had always been there. The landscaping was designed in conjunction with the house as in all our projects.

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As you walk through it, the house is divided in two by an internal cutout that brings light and vegetation to all the rooms. Two large cylinders frame the entrance to a hall that connects the service staircase, the desk, a circular toilette and the passage to a bridge floating between the courtyards and the main staircase, which is detached from the floor in a spiral shape inside a closed cylinder that is illuminated by a skylight.

The walkways that connect the two parts of the house both on the first floor and on the first floor crossing the courtyards are closed to the outside with curved glass generating a feeling of being outdoors when one crosses them.

Upstairs two rooms face the front and the master bedroom faces the back with the best views and orientation. Again the bridge that connects the two sectors of the house appears crossing the courtyards of the house.

The house has a set of half levels (the entrance is at +1.50 allowing the incorporation of a garage at - 1.50), which allowed each room to vary its height according to its use and importance. The living room has a height of 4.50 achieving an entrance of light, cross ventilation and unique views.

The interweaving of straight and curved lines, inverted beams and play of levels was a great structural challenge, as well as a cantilever of 6 meters long manages to generate the gallery without any corner support.

For orientation reasons, the pool is located at the back of the lot, it is also designed with curved shapes and the edge grows in height becoming the seat for the stoker.

Most of the elements designed in the house have curved shapes, the floors are made of white concrete which, being a monolithic material, allowed us to copy the curves of each step. For the wooden doors we chose walnut as it was the closest tone to the color of the stained concrete. The bathrooms are clad in terrazzo made on site and copying each of the curves of the bathrooms. The color of the terrazzo was specially designed for this house with white background and brown and white stones.

The carpentries are pvc with dvh for its airtightness, but the color was selected more similar to the stained concrete.