Casa Grava is a contemporary house located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, designed in 2021 by Estudio Pka.

Description
The project is located in Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina with northeast orientation and direct views to the central lagoon of the Virazon neighborhood located in Nordelta.
The impront of the house was based on generating a pure and clean geometry that enhances the surrounding nature and respects the privacy of the proposal.
Casa Grava was projected as a mass, with its personal and tectonic impront. There was a search in respect to the materiality, the choice of stone on the outside had to do with a nostalgic idea of the client, this generated a design that starts from the idea of the settlement of a stone. Conceptually, we started from a heavy base, with the stone as a protagonist that identifies the place, a lighter upper floor and different perforations that were generated to capture the best orientation.
The house is developed on two floors, the first floor is perceived as a large volume with openings which generates internal gardens and an access courtyard. All these voids are designed to capture the best light and generate different enriching situations for users.
Casa Grava uses a duality in the contrast between the interior materiality and the exterior. The ground floor is perceived as a solid, the stone manages to enhance this idea but its interiors were projected light, permeable with a white suspended ceiling that help...