House with columns
House with columns is located in Villa Elisa, a few meters from Parque Pereyra on the outskirts of La Plata, although due to its autonomy and timelessness it could also be somewhere else and it would not be strange to imagine it happening.
We could say that the House with Columns is the result of a game. An open and indeterminate system with defined rules and elements. This compositional game allows to test multiple configurations while maintaining a logical order between the parts. To restrict in order to liberate is its greatest creative challenge.
As in ancient architecture, equidistant pillars and simply supported beams define space and form on a game board that moves from the canonical Nine-square grid to explore the Sixteen-square grid as a more generic and non-hierarchical scenario.
A Sol Lewitt structure of precast concrete elements is organized on a three-dimensional grid of 3.5 meters defining an abstract forest of columns. Its generic and permanent condition coexists with specific and temporary skins, a series of accumulative filters allow experimenting new intermediate spaces between interior-exterior, reinterpreting the covered patios as diffuse atmospheres that expand the limits and passively control the climatic comfort.
The structure remains open and expectant to an unstable content; it accommodates and concentrates a series of activating devices to qualify the space and exalt those who inhabit it. As if it were a model of Archizoom, reflections and rhythmic effects internally evidence its "No-Stop" isotropic potential, activating the perceptive game. Finally, it is a skeptical hypostyle room; an available and performative scenario to enjoy life, where architecture is reduced to establish the bases, to frame the space, its ultimate goal being to order in order to disorder, a game without end.
