Volume: Arelauquen G & CC-Bariloche - Black Rio Province - Argentina
Architects: Alric Galindez. Architect Santiago Alric, Architect Carlos Galindez, Architect Federico Lloveras.
Contributors: Alfredo Quiroga, Sofia Peluffo, Joaquin Adot
Counted: Eng Jorge Zapata
Consultants: Architect Beverati Carlos Juan, inst. Sanitary Engineer Edgardo Gaviño / Architect Julio Nieto, inst. Thermomechanical, Martin Evans Architect / Architect Silvia de Schiller, Design Bioenvironmental
Construction: Arrieta Arrieta & construction
Interior Design: Architect Patricia Gurfinkel / Decorator Sofia Mendoza
Year of completion: 2008
Square meters covered: 591m2
Square Meters discovered: 70m2

The first question that arises is how to raise a house in a land where nature has a strong presence. In that sense, I propose a relationship with the landscape through the material, as if the house was a rock in the mountains and that was always there.

Architects: OPA / Felipe del Rio, Federico Campino
Location: Colina, Región Metropolitana, Chile
Structural Engineering: Leonora Morales
Construction: Jaime Martinez Jaca
Interior Area: 200 m2
Exterior Surface: 77 m2
Built Year: 2009
Landscaping: Jose Ignacio Romussi
Photo: Nico Saieh / Cristina Alemparte

This house is located in a lot of parcels in the vicinity of Hill, on one side of the Carretera San Martin de los Andes. The abundant vegetation and open space, dominated by hills and trees, support the rural character of the area, worn by urban expansion and real estate development has little sensitivity to the wild, reproducing patterns of housing and urban infrastructure, in a natural setting . This is also importing the image of the city, the countryside.

he Winery Icaria is immersed in the charming atmosphere of the hills of Val d'Orcia, the specificity of the natural context and approach to the production activity suggests the use of stone material aimed at non-invasive architecture that, with the austerity and simplicity of the geometry of the four volumes emerging reinterpret the type of building rural Tuscany. The solution combines functional-typological traditional spaces (offices, rooms for aging, fermentation, winemaking, bottling, warehousing, tasting rooms) and not (for exposure to public environments, boardrooms).
The composition derives from a unitary element stone, then divided into four different volumes lying on the natural slope of the soil, whose inter-spaces become light band culminating in four appendices, transparent prisms initially conceived as spaces for a sculpture depicting the four elements Primary: water, air, earth, fire, emblems of the search for context.
Sheaths mostly materic, approach carefully glazed volumes, according to a rhythmic alternation of full and empty.
The relationship tradition-modernity implicitly connected to the union full-empty, cellars Icarius not resulting in the 'extremism of either appearance, but in a careful balance of language.
The project is looking for a blend of formal and functional, with the tradition in language, externally and internally assonant it designed by a spatial geometry of trusses and the use of glassy surfaces.