Single Family House Design On A Corner Lot With Beautiful Views Of The River

Casa Proa is a single-family house located in the Marinas H neighborhood in Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Rising above the basement of the first floor, a volume of angular shapes is positioned as a boat and becomes a viewpoint, due to its strategic location on the lot, with views of the Luján River. Located on a corner lot, the perimeter of the terrain is taken, respecting the surroundings and generating a garden that expands towards the lagoon. In this way, the house has an introverted relationship with the street, but with a fluid interior spatial relationship, which opens at all times towards the river landscape. Entering through the facade, a patio welcomes us in the hall space, which acts as a joint articulating the service and public life blocks of the ground floor. The path leads us to the living room, where the space opens up and connects fluidly with the garden, while limiting the views from the street by filling the space with light through large horizontal slits, thus controlling the limits and allowing the program to expand, while at the same time being contained. The staircase is one of the main protagonists in the interior of the house: from its vegetation at the beginning, to the courtyard that ends the route, it takes us to the private nave of the house on the upper floor. The idea is that the whole proposal lives around the garden, turning its interior spaces towards the landscape. This nature is subtly included in other sectors of the house...