Casa BP, Estancia El Terrón, modern Mendiolaza home, Córdoba real estate, Argentina residential property photos
Casa BP, Estancia El Terrón, Mendiolaza, Córdoba
30 November 2025
Architectural Design + Interior Design: Architect Santiago Bertotti
Location: Estancia El Terrón, Mendiolaza, Córdoba, Argentina
Photos by Gonzalo Viramonte
Casa BP, Estancia El Terrón, Mendiolaza – Modern Córdoba Home
The residence is situated on an elevated portion of the site, taking advantage of the gentle topography and the expansive views toward the surrounding rural landscape. The primary volume is organized in a strictly longitudinal layout, aligned with the site’s dominant boundaries and anchored into the terrain by a green platform that follows the natural contours of the land.
The architectural strategy is defined through two simultaneous formal operations:
• A monolithic main body composed of continuous earth-toned walls, creating an opaque, introverted facade toward the vehicular access and a fully permeable elevation opening onto the landscape.
• A secondary support pavilion, lighter and more contemporary in expression, characterized by black-framed glazing, expansive glass surfaces, and horizontal sun-shading elements.
FUNCTIONAL AND SPATIAL ORGANIZATION
SOCIAL SECTOR
The social life of the project is structured around an integrated core that brings together the living room, dining area, and kitchen into a single continuous and flexible space. This central nucleus connects directly with a parallel longitudinal gallery, whose orientation and openness allow interior activities to extend seamlessly toward the exterior.
PRIVATE SECTOR
The right wing houses the bedrooms, buffered by a linear corridor and the thermal mass of the external walls. Openings are carefully calibrated to ensure privacy, daylight control, and a stable interior climate.
COMPLEMENTARY VOLUME
Subtly detached from the main body, a contemporary pavilion emerges, where the metal structure and sun-shading components filter and modulate natural light.
LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND SITE RELATIONSHIP
The project incorporates a garden composed of native species—grasses, herbaceous plants, and local shrubs—arranged loosely with a distinctly naturalistic intention. The landscaping is conceived not as decorative foreground but as an extension of the serrano ecosystem, reinforcing the topography and softening the interface between built form and terrain.
A linear pool positioned directly alongside the gallery acts as a reflective horizontal plane, extending the residence’s strict geometry and establishing a visual dialogue with the surrounding vegetation.
MATERIALITY AND TECTONIC EXPRESSION
The project employs a material palette carefully aligned with the climate and geographic context:
• Pigmented cement-rendered walls with handcrafted texture and mineral finish, providing chromatic unity to the primary volume.
• A solid-wood structural system in the main gallery, expressed through irregular columns and continuous slatted ceilings.
• Black metal and glass framing in the complementary volume, where transparency is moderated through sun-shades and adjustable louvers.
The natural materiality—both in its earthy tones and tactile qualities—reinforces an architecture that feels grounded, stable, and deeply connected to its site.
CONCEPTUAL SYNTHESIS
The residence is conceived as a linear incision in the landscape: austere and opaque toward its access, open and permeable toward the views; massive in its blind façade, yet light and subtly undulating along its galleries. Its composition emerges from the tension between solid and void, mass and transparency, protection and openness.
This is an architecture that anchors itself to the land not as a picturesque gesture but as a technical and territorial response.
Rather than asserting itself as an isolated object, the house operates as a territorial element—reading, accompanying, and amplifying the surrounding landscape. From this intention arises its tonal character: an architecture that dissolves into the colors of the soil, the textures of the climate, and the temporal conditions of the site.
TONAL AND MATERIAL CHARACTER
The main volume presents itself as a pigmented monolithic body whose earthy hues echo the dominant palette of the rural environment. The material choice is ecological rather than merely aesthetic:
• At sunrise, the walls absorb warm light, taking on pinkish tones.
• At sunset, shadows deepen them into rich ochres.
• On overcast days, they register as a quiet, matte surface.
The access facade is nearly opaque—contained and introspective.
The facade facing the landscape is open, extended, and visually deep.
This alternation of solids and voids allows the residence to manage exposure in response to climate, wind, sunlight, and privacy requirements.
It is a building that does not oppose its context but engages in constant dialogue with it.
Casa BP, Estancia El Terrón, Mendiolaza, Córdoba, Argentina – Property Information
Title: Casa BP
Location: Estancia El Terrón, Mendiolaza, Córdoba, Argentina
Architectural Design: Architect Santiago Bertotti
Interior Design: Architect Santiago Bertotti
Construction Management: Archtect Federico Monjo
Landscape Design: Blas Spina
Site Area: 21,528 ft²
Built Area: 4,306 ft²
Project Year: 2022
Construction Period: 2023–2024
Suppliers: Canteras del Mundo / Egger
Photography: Gonzalo Viramonte
Instagram: (at)gonzaloviramonte
Facebook: Arq. Gonzalo Viramonte
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