Over the years,the studio has intervened in the renovation of the client’s house (Charlie) in Cariló - a coastal town in Buenos Aires' Pinamar County. The residence is a brick chalet with a pitched roof built in the early 80s which has withstood inclement weather and the passage of time very well, although not so much the changes in the family composition and the variations in the ways of using the house.
The last reform centered on the exterior area towards the rear façade, a new space that had to be linked to the existing house and protected from weather changes. Although the client imagined a concrete and glass box 'floating' among the trees, the studio's response was to design it as the original designer would have done, taking into account the passage of time and the evolution of materials.
Faced with the challenge of adapting a typical house of the area to new demands, the studio took gestures and imprint of the typical houses of the time but ensuring a more fluid relationship with the natural environment. Therefore, the resounding interior/exterior limit generated by the concept of 'wall and span' was avoided as today is incompatible with a generic user who seeks a more fluid and complex connection between architecture and nature. In this sense, the new element is light and transparent and does not contact the ground as it rests on a platform that makes it ‘levitate’ over an evergreen park. The barbecue area can open completely and becomes a bellow that links the existing house with the outside, transforming itself into a pavilion for various uses among the trees.
Charlie's Quincho is a dialectic proposal that was worked in a contemporary way, in both technology and aesthetics. Matching in form and differentiating in materiality, it creates an interesting tension that reveals that the parts belong to not only different ‘authors’ and thoughts, but above all to different moments.
Team:
Architect: Estudio Galera Arquitectura
Photography: Diego Medina
Estudio Galera. Architecture team:
Ariel Galera. Achitect.-
Cesar Amarante. Achitect.-
Francisco Villamil. Achitect.-
Luisina Noya. Achitect.-
Colaboradores:
Soledad Van Schaik, Juan Cruz Ance, Facundo Casales.
Project supervisor: Pablo Ahumada. MMO
Administration management: Verónica Coleman.
Texts and translation: Soledad Pereyra.
Consultants:
Structural Engineer: Javier Mendía
Surveyor: Claudio and Juan Pablo D eramo
Project Construction:
Custom metal working: Hernan
Decks: Bauer Hermanos
Electricity: Gabriel Jaimón
Ducts and sheet metal: Rubén Calvo
Masonry: Lenis Hermanos.
Material Used:
1. Wood millwork: “El Holandés”
2. Aluminum millwork: Alumia
3. Concrete supplier: Pasalto
4. Iron bars and sheets: Acindar / Plastigas
5. Wood Supplier: Las Misiones
6. Coarse agregate: Cermat
