Corzuelas House / Manuel Gonzalez Veglia + Dolores Menso

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Villa Allende, Argentina
  • Design And Construction: Arq. Maria Emilia Lavanchy
  • Design: Arq. Maria Emilia Lavanchy
  • Structure: Fernando Mattiuz, Gustavo Lozano
  • Construction: Maria Emilia Lavanchy
  • City: Villa Allende
  • Country: Argentina
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Corzuelas House / Manuel Gonzalez Veglia + Dolores Menso  - Windows
© Gonzalo Viramonte

Text description provided by the architects. The house is located in a new community on the outskirts of the city. The project is meant to be a sober and orderly intervention; a pause within a visually noisy context. Once you walk in the interior of the house, one understands that the spacial sequence is defined by its structure. By structure we mean shape, space and movement. 

Plan
Corzuelas House / Manuel Gonzalez Veglia + Dolores Menso  - Brick, Facade
© Gonzalo Viramonte

In an attempt to reduce, but above all, keep control of construction costs, inexpensive modular elements were used –e.g. concrete blocks – as well as materials that do not require maintenance - e.g. exposed concrete and pre-painted metal panels-. 

Corzuelas House / Manuel Gonzalez Veglia + Dolores Menso  - Chair
© Gonzalo Viramonte

Concrete blocks comprise the exterior envelope of the house with metal framing with gypsum board on the inside.  The metal framing hosts all of the pipes and wires without interfering with the CMU, while providing optimal thermal insulation. The project is laid over a grid of parallel walls which run from east to west, crossed by 4 beams in a north-south orientation. Walls define spaces and there are sloped slabs between beams.

Detail
Corzuelas House / Manuel Gonzalez Veglia + Dolores Menso  - Brick, Facade
© Gonzalo Viramonte

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Cite: "Corzuelas House / Manuel Gonzalez Veglia + Dolores Menso " 13 Apr 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/785385/corzuelas-house-manuel-gonzalez-veglia-plus-dolores-menso> ISSN 0719-8884

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