Home Among The Trees by MartiÌn FernaÌndez de Lema & NicolaÌs Moreno Deutsch
MartÃn Fernández de Lema and Nicolás F. Moreno Deutsch designed home with extreme style. Go green concept become basic idea of this home design. Home among the trees is built in Mar Azul, Buenos Aires, Argentina in the responsible of construction company : Héctor Ferraro.
The landscape of Mar Azul, a seaside resort near Villa Gesell and 400 km from Buenos Aires, is full of thick forest with different kinds of pine trees, acacias and black poplars as well as wide areas of dunes and virgin beaches.
The local construction code demands free space at both sides and limits the extraction of trees. The future owners –a couple that will change their boat for a house in the forest- requested that great care should be taken to preserve the natural conditions of the plot of land and to profit as much as possible from the natural qualities.
The home emerges from the ground to see the landscape surrounding. It takes place on two floor building, first floor which emerges from the earth serves as a plinth for private use, which organizes the rooms and defines a horizontal plane on which rests a pavilion on the upper floor, which includes the social program with the living, dining room, grill and terrace, organized in a central area of use, with sides of circulation and services.
The vertical support of this L is a wall of concrete formwork tables arranged horizontally to accentuate the dominant direction of the house, which is taking thickness and defines the circulation, support functions, linking both levels. The horizontal plane of the L is drilled, in the range of external access circulation, and traversed by trees, which seem to spring from the way of wooden boards treated pine.
Photographs: Gustavo Sosa Pinilla
