Casa en la Finca, Andes Mountains Farmhouse, Argentinan Architecture, Building Project, Images
Casa en la Finca near the Andes Mountains
Modern Real Estate Development in Argentina ? design by Obra Architects
19 May 2019
Casa en la Finca
Design: Obra Architects
Location: Andes Mountains, Argentina, South America

Located in a vineyard near the Andes Mountains in Argentina, Casa en la Finca is a normal farmhouse with dining room, three bedrooms, living room, like many other farmhouses in the area, but with a configuration of spaces less abrupt and more fluid.

The house contains three cylindrical walled courtyards, each with a tree in its center and paired with one of the bedrooms in the house. Outside the courtyards, on the convexity of their walls, the daytime spaces of the house slide gently into one another with lack of clear definition, making it hard to know where one room ends and the other begins.
The house is built with simple materials: brick walls stuccoed white on the exterior, with wooden windows and doors. The roof is made out of poplar tree trunks and mats of cane reed tied with wire and covered on a layer of rammed earth, a traditional way of building farmhouse roofs in the area. For all intents and purposes, the house looks like any other house nearby, a white box presenting a loggia to the north where the sunlight comes in from the southern hemisphere.

By the vineyard, the house sits in the middle of a fruit orchard under some old palm trees. The t...