Fallingwater / Andres Remy Architects
Architects: Architects Andres Remy
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Project Team: Andres Remy, Flavia Bellani, Marco Pozzo, Paula Mancini, Laura Rodriguez Segat, Leandra Rodriguez Llebana
Project Leader: Andres Remy & Laura Rodriguez Segat
Structural Engineer: Carlos Dolhare
Project Area: 340 mt2
Project Year: 2005
Photo: Andres Remy Architects
The Fallingwater was designed from the commissioning of a young entrepreneur, to be held in an area located in a gated community. Both the special features and customer requirements as the terrain allowed in a specific way to address this project.
The limits of the small field to which we refer, seem to escape the inescapable visual focus: the lagoon. The houses surrounding the course of the sun and the visuals also help us understand better the site. At the back of the ground, at ground level, the gap is perceived shyness as was deemed necessary to achieve gaze rise better. As a result, it was decided to place the social area of this apartment upstairs, watching and panoramic views for most of the day. That's where the water appears unexpected at that point, wrapping architecture and painting it with their reflections, while traversing giving life and movement. He appears and disappears before the eyes of the user; reassures dazzles with its sound and its reflections on a journey that stimulates the senses.
The water mirror that expands the limits of this housing and makes it seem infinite, blurring the divide between natural and artificial, between the inside and outside. The high water falls like a waterfall, the pool located on ground floor, cooling environments, providing them with privacy and light sifting Northwest to make it less harmful. The cascade effect is possible through a system of pumps that recirculate water. Hence the name under which he was baptized into the house.
As for the functionality of this dwelling, flexible spaces, so that they could adapt to both the active social life of our client as to the needs of future families, taking care not to restrict other possible uses. The flexibility referred to isolate the private sector developed at ground floor, the public sector resulting from the merger of the second floor and part ground floor for large events, or else another wean a level of getting a recreation area for boys and one for adults. As a connection between the street and inside the house, lies a multipurpose space, determined with high strength materials that allow its use as garage, playroom or ballroom. The vertical circulation bathes the triple height space overhead light and binds both levels. The volumetric play outside and inside, is dematerialized facing the back, thus solving the visual openness of the main rooms to the lagoon, and a front containing more blind area and provides privacy services to housing. The balance as between full and empty, try to avoid the adverse impacts generated by large aventanamientos, with regard to thermal insulation.
