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Modular House in Cordoba, Argentina

18 January 2025

Architecture: Arch. Cristián Nanzer

Location: Country La Cascada, Córdoba, Argentina

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba house

Photos by Gonzalo Viramonte

Modular House, Argentina

The RC House is located in a gated suburban neighborhood in the southwestern area of the city of Córdoba, near the source of the La Cañada stream. Once systematized, this stream becomes one of the city’s iconic promenades, flowing through various neighborhoods, reaching the city center, and ultimately emptying into the Suquía River.

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba house

The plot measures 25.45 meters by 59.00 meters, with a south-facing front and a gentle slope towards the rear boundary, which has a direct northern orientation and borders the neighborhood’s golf course. This configuration influenced the project’s typological decisions, placing the social area on the first floor to take advantage of distant views, while the bedrooms, daily living spaces, and service areas are arranged on the ground floor, oriented to the north in close connection with the garden.

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba Argenntina

The ground floor functions as a wall-like base for an independent structure that rises on the first floor, supporting a vaulted roof arranged in five parallel bands that organize all the spaces within the house.

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba

The spacing between the axes of the vaults is determined by maximizing the use of the plot’s surface area while respecting the lateral setbacks stipulated by local regulations (with a band width of 3.45 meters and a total length of 15.50 meters). This system creates a “parasol”-type roof with continuous spatiality, defining intermediate areas at both the south and north facades.

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba

The project is organized around five bands that define both the structural order and the programmatic distribution of the house, spanning both levels and establishing a construction module applicable to all systems involved. One of these bands establishes the longitudinal axis of access, connecting the approach spaces, the entrance, and the subsequent relationship with the exterior park.

Casa RC Córdoba Argenntina

Access is provided through a double-height space with distant views of the golf course, where the staircase is located, connecting the upper and lower floors and providing access to the park and pool area. This layout extends the interior typological organization to the geometry of the exterior spaces.

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba house

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba house

The project is based on two main operations: a wall-like podium that resolves connections, access points, and adapts to the terrain’s slopes, and a vaulted roof that rises above the base, functioning as a shading element. This roof, supported by an independent structure, creates transitional intermediate spaces, characterized by its wide overhangs on the north and south facades.

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba Argenntina

The materiality of the house reflects its dual condition. On the ground floor, the exterior walls are made of cyclopean concrete, providing character and weight to the base. In contrast, the upper floor emphasizes transparency and distant views, highlighted by the vaulted roof suspended on an independent structure. Concrete walls are only present on the adjoining sides to ensure the privacy of the social area, shielding it from potential views from neighboring houses.

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba Argenntina

The design of the house, in its raw materiality, reveals its construction process and the craftsmanship involved. The predominant materials are stone and concrete, with exposed brick reserved exclusively for the vaults. This choice emphasizes, through both geometry and material, the diffusion of soft, warm light throughout the main space.

Casa RC Córdoba Argenntina

The physical expression of the house extends even to the electrical installations, which, following the concept of an industrial building, are arranged visibly through galvanized piping. This provides greater versatility to the spaces and allows for future adaptations according to changing needs over time.

Casa RC Córdoba Argenntina

In order to keep the vaulted ceiling free of any installations, it was decided that the water tank would be an independent sculptural element that, without touching the main structure, would scale and identify the entrance to the house.

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba

As a provisional conclusion, it can be defined as a house on the periphery of an overly prawling city, with the constant hybridity and contrasts typical of our Latin American cities. It is conceived with archaic and universal architectural techniques, such as heavy walls and vaulted ceilings, and materialized with the skilled craftsmanship inherited from excellent regional builders, from the vast South American region. It is designed within the frameworks
of a modern tradition learned over time. Despite (or rather, precisely because of) all of this, the house aims to respond—without rhetoric—to a contemporary architecture that is unique to its place and its time.

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba house

Modular House in Cordoba, Argentina – Property Information

Architecture Office: Arch. Cristián Nanzer – https://cristiannanzer.ar/

Location: Country La Cascada, Córdoba, Argentina

Authors: Cristián Nanzer
Collaborators: Architect Lourdes Cuadro, Architect Juan Dimuro

Technical Direction: Arch. Cristián Nanzer / Arch. Daniel Villani
Collaborators: Arch. Lourdes Cuadro / Arch. Juan Dimuro
Structural Calculation: Eng. Edgar Morán
Construction: Estudio Nebreda & Villani
Arch. Adriana Nebreda / Arch. Daniel Villani
Landscape Design: Estudio Paisaje Contemporáneo
IG: @paisajecontemporaneo
Electrical Installations: Gabriel Canelo
Carpentry: Anodal Company
Year of Execution: 2020 – 2023
Photography of Completed Work: Gonzalo Viramonte
Progress Photography: Juan Dimuro
Author’s Note: Cristián Nanzer

Casa RC Country La Cascada Córdoba

Photography Credits: Arch. Gonzalo Viramonte
Instagram Photographer: @gonzaloviramonte
Photographer E-mail: [email protected]
Website Photographer: @gonzaloviramonte

Modular House, Cordoba, Argentina images / information received 190824 from Gonzalo Viramonte

Location: Córdoba, Argentina, South America

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