MD House
Gonzalo Viramonte

MD House

Andres Alonso Arquitecto as Architects

This house located in a lot between boundary walls, in a closed neighborhood of the city of Cordoba, Argentina, was made with a typical family in mind; a couple of middle-age professionals and their two young children. The first meeting took place at the client’s office, a house of exposed brick by the Architect Togo Diaz, who gave an brick identity to the city with hundreds of architectural works. This house was the starting point for the language of this project. A place that invites to be lived inwards; this was the theme that guided the design process for a family that is trying to escape the logic of the systematic, with a dynamic of present parents, parents who search in simplicity the calm brought by a connection with the real.


The house was organized in two levels, with a total covered surface of 344 m2. The social area on the ground floor, forming a blind volume towards the front facing west and materialized in exposed brick, anchors the project to the local tradition and functions as the foundation of the upper volume.


The ground floor has an area of 221 m2, a garage in the front, an entrance hall that connects the public with the private, an internal courtyard that articulates the main spaces, the dining room, the kitchen and the playroom; the latter two share a visual connection through two large glass doors, which allow to keep an eye on the children, but at the same time the possibility of keeping both spaces independent. The dining room is connected to the gallery by large glazed panels, a transition space between the interior and the green exterior. Following the kitchen, a narrow volume of services is projected, laundry room, tender, pool bathroom and a storage deposit.


The upper floor, is supported on the brick base materialized with a pure white volume, looking for the contrast. The private area, with a surface of 123 m2, contains to the west the stairwell, a study and a bathroom, while to the east there are three bedrooms with a great visual opening to the hill range. The en suite bedroom expands towards the terrace which is protected from the south by the volume of the en suite bathroom that is projected to the east using the same language as the services on the ground floor.

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