Casa Nicaragua

The house is located in the heart of Palermo Viejo, on a typical 8.66 Buenos Aires lot.
The piece positions on ground in a single central volume, generating two large voids characterized by their use. One of them is an entrance patio from the street, affected by a grill and clay oven, and a backyard in relation to an exterior fireplace and a contemplative garden.
The relationship on low level with these patios is accentuated by the use of slabs without beams and floor-to-ceiling carpentry. This allows the carpentry to open entirety, creating maximum continuity with the outside.
The ground floor opens up to a large space with a living room, a kitchen and a dining room. A volume with a toilet and laundry room, taken to its minimum expression, constitutes the only blind volume so as not to lose the transparency of the ground floor. This volume defines the main and public access to the house. An overlapped system of stairs organizes the circulation vertically, towards an upper floor with three bedrooms, and towards a basement where the cellar is located. On the upper floor and due to its orientation, the project seeks to control the east and west suns through a motorized system of exterior curtains.
The project achieves a warm atmosphere through a reduced but expressive palette, composed of exposed plank concrete, peteribí wood and Lawrence travertine. In view of an atypical client for this project, dedicated to gastronomy, a lover of wine and with strong symbolic values, we encouraged the commission of works of art that exalt these symbols, linked to wine and art, to see them represented through the project. .
The artist Leo Battistelli was in charge of developing these works. We worked in three specific spaces in the house: the table in the center of the cellar, with a light object that symbolizes the heart of the grape, the center of the dining room table, a work called “Neptune” illuminates the center of the table, and in the garden works from the “Luminosos” series called “Venus”, “Hexa” and “Pluto”.