The House of the 7 Patios / Spinetta Architecture

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“The House of the 7 Patios” is located on a large plot of land, in front of the Rosario airport runway and the railroad tracks. Both preexistences present a strong horizontality as elements of the environment and it was a decision to enhance them in the project through visuals, and also as a starting point for the implementation of the house in an extended way across the entire width of the lot.

In the project, covered spaces are interspersed with a total of 7 patios with vegetation. The most private environments are housed in opaque volumes covered in red brick and between them, the social meeting spaces with large glass surfaces that overlook the galleries. In this way, the possibility of having two views is enabled: a vast and wide view of the landscape, and another introspective view that the patios allow as a protection of privacy.

The 7 patios allow the entry of sun and ventilation to all rooms through the design of eaves and orientation of openings. The use of metal meshes in the upper part solves the issue of safety while not interrupting the view at eye level. Each of the patios has its own identity that is conferred by the design of the native vegetation based on pampas grasslands and vines that climb and hang. They are species collected from the surrounding ecosystem, generating continuity of biological corridors towards the interior of domestic gardens, providing shelter and food for insects, invertebrates, birds and small animals.

The bioclimatic strategies adopted respond to the need to promote certain sustainable practices such as: cross ventilation, protective eaves, double walls, DVH glass, rainwater collection, solar hot water tank, separation of waste for recycling and composting on the land. .

Generous dimensions of the rooms, openings at different heights that allow light to enter from different angles, beams and slabs that go down and up, added to the textures of brick and exposed concrete, give the interiors dynamism and spatial richness. The transition between interior and exterior has a sensory thickness as it is mediated by patios with vegetation, eaves, galleries, blinds and mobile curtains, which as filters allow unique spatial experiences where the senses and emotions are at play.

A succession of microcosms that allow the house to be inhabited by stopping the passage, through sensory experiences of apprehension of the environment. The movement is enriched through the sounds and smells, textures and temperature of the materials, the wind in the plants, the light that enters filtered by the vegetation or forceful through the openings, hummingbirds and butterflies that surprise, the colors that accompany the seasons of the year, everything is assembled in the different scenarios that consolidate the internal universe of the house and its inhabitants.

Architecture is presented as a device through which exchanges between climate, nature and people can be regulated, inviting us to participate in the daily construction of a domestic scenario committed to the environment it inhabits.