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Magazine review FLUID HOUSE

Argentinian office Set Ideas has added a glass-and-steel extension to a house in the mountains of Córdoba, using a modular structure to enlarge the resident's living spaces.


Completed earlier in 2021, the project is dubbed Fluid House, and entailed a thorough remodel of an existing home in the central province of Argentina.




From concept to reality

Integrate, connect, assemble, couple, unite ... put in contact. Not just an existing house with the same extension, but the way you live inside, the way you look outside, the way you connect with your surrounding and with yourself. The way in which architecture flows from contemporary living.


At the Fluid House, the main challenge was to make the construction spirit exist. It is about broadening the look and giving the house a new song.


We took advantage of the spectacular visuals and the original layout of the house to generate a modular metal structure. This same, composes the space, architecture, aesthetics, and functionality. In itself the metal is everything. Accompanied by wood, these two are the only materials and technological elements incorporated, and through them absolutely everything is composed.



We re-functionalized the house from each of the existing levels, giving hierarchy and visual to what was previously built. From the entrance, a living room, up the atelier, and down the barbecue, and lower, the deposit.

On the facade, a new fire space that generated better established limits and better relationships from the inside to the outside and from the street to the house.


This is how with few but significant elements we managed to make the space flow through a modular structure.



"We took advantage of the spectacular views and the original layout of the house to generate a modular metal structure. We re-evaluated the functionality of the house on each of the existing levels, giving precedence and visual importance to what was previously built", explained architects from FRAME Studio.

To the home itself, FRAME studio added a four-storey volume that is attached to the existing stone structure. Because of the site's steep slope, this addition meets the scale of the current property.


The intervention is first seen from the street, where a new gate provides more privacy for the home's residents. Black metal pickets now front the building, giving only glimpses of the residence beyond. Behind these, the architects laid out a new outdoor lounge area, with a fireplace and grill.


On the ground floor, the architects included a new living room, which enjoys sweeping views of the lush surroundings and is connected to a dine-in kitchen below by an open staircase.


They also used the intervention as an opportunity to create a new storage room in the cellar, as well as a small home office perched on the top floor. In total, the new floor area encompasses 130 square metres.


Architects in charge: Carlos Arias, Heriberto Martinez, Pedro Ruiz Funes, Danisa Pereyra.

Photography by Gonzalo Viramonte.

Design team: Paloma Allende.

Collaborators: Juan E. Biassi, Naomi Castillo, Carolina Rufeil.

Interior design: Danisa Pereyra.

Civil engineer and supervision by Lucas Crespi.


 
 
 

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