House in the Countryside is located on a one-hectare lot in the town of Cañuelas. In a rural environment, where the landscape presence of the Pampas plain is strongly imposed.

Luciano Kruk Arquitectos customers are a couple with a ten-year-old son who enjoy living in the countryside and being in contact with nature and wanted to move to a practical and functional house, requiring little maintenance and with a stripped-back aesthetic that would allow them to fully enjoy the environment. They requested a house where the use of each square meter would be optimized to the maximum with the aim of building the smallest surface possible to accommodate the required uses: two bedrooms, an office and a social area.

The strategy arises from focusing on the interest generated by the power of the landscape of the Pampas plains. The omnipresence of the horizon, of the extension of the uninterrupted, infinite plain, and the enormous, immense sky, that occupies the entire visual space and is enhanced by the sporadic presence of some groups of trees.

The house extends into the landscape through a gallery. This gallery has a lower height than the interior of the house, which accentuates the horizontality of the project and, in turn, provides greater protection from solar incidence in the summer months. The south facade, on the other hand, is a more closed facade, with a continuous upper window that is interrupted only at the point of access to the house.

The layout generates a large social area in the center of the house and groups the child's bedroom at one end next to the office (which will be used by him) and at the other end the parents' room. In this way, the private areas are well separated from each other, granting privacy to them.

Location: Cañuelas, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Land area: 11.124m2
Built area: 160m2
Construction year: 2020