FyF Residence

A dynamic of movement and vistas activates a residence towards the garden and flat landscape of Rosario’s suburbs

FyF is located in the outskirts of Rosario, approximately 300 km north of Buenos Aires, in a new residential development adjacent to a traditional neighborhood. The small house of approximately 200 m2 can be described as a spatial and physical attempt to challenge the planar stability and flat homogeneity of the pampas landscape. The project was conceived as a monolithic solid, a monochromatic form punctuated only by subtle inflections that establish a complex physical relationship among the different spaces while maintaining a sense of identity and privacy between them.

The house is organized into a basic disposition of public and private spaces connected by a central corridor and articulated by a small light well. The internal atmosphere of the house offers contrasting effects of calmness and fluidity. While all rooms are discreetly separated, they are also connected by means of strategic openings at the transitions, adding a sense of controlled endlessness to the main areas of the house. A pliant pool in close proximity produces a cascading physical continuum with the body of the house. Torquing the volume while merging it with the ground, the pool complicates the spatial stability of the house and activates a dynamic and oblique sequence of movement and views to the landscape beyond.