Casa Bunker, Buenos Aires Residence, Argentina Property, Argentine Architecture, Architect

Buenos Aires Residence, Argentina

Argentine Bunker House design by Botteri-Connell Office

25 Apr 2013

Casa Bunker

Design: Botteri-Connell Office

Location: La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Contemporary Argentina Property

“GRAVITY builds SPACE and LIGHT builds TIME. Architecture as a CONSTRUCTED IDEA” – Alberto Campo Baeza.

The house has been built in a suburban neighbourhood and has been thought for someone who will live there permanently and whose children, friends and couple will visit them from time to time.

photo : Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

From meetings with the client, many concepts arise that seek architectonical answers:

“a house which can integrate social life in direct relation with the outside, having a space in it which hosts and protects intimacy. A space where one can stay while the rest of the house remains asleep. An introspection space; a temporal oasis.”

In response to these concepts, at first sight the house is built along two different elements: the Bunker that is solid, hermetic, almost impenetrable; and the open, permeable Action area that dissolves the limits in constant movement.

photos : Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

The Bunker is a singular poetic image, a primitive shelter, a home for lonely dreams and an intimate space. Practically void of the outside, it “opens up” a larger universe, holding the Dweller in their complete reality.

The Bunker presents itself to the outside as stony, still, immemorial as a carved rock. However, there are lines that cross it through, that mold it and engrave it…GRAVITY, LIGHT, WATER and AIR outline TIME and SPACE.

Its inside layout- “heartbeats of the one who lives in it”- defines a warm, soft and expandable heart… Geometry is surpassed.

photos : Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

The spiral staircase stops being a mere connection element between distant points to become an entrance to a cosmic and mysterious universe, an escape from ordinary life from time to time and a feeling of “ascension” drawn by the development of the axial focus…The Infinite.

The Action Plan – made up of transparent membranes, white walls and large tiling surfaces-defines areas embedded in a larger one which in fact are the actual limits of the plot of land. The neutral Green and its different degrees of seizure.

photos : Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

The Water, with its leading role in everyday life, is sometimes a mirror and sometimes entertainment but always a connection between the World and ME.

The Light passes gently through the concrete walls.
The Gravity permanently facing challenge.
And there come Lines Again: Family Lines, Friendship Lines and Work Lines making space constantly flow. It is a place for social life.
Among them, overlooking the scene, concrete walls rise.

photos : Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

Bunker House – Building Information

Work: Casa Bunker
Site: City Bell – La Plata, Bs As – Argentina
Year: 2011
Built surface: 286 sqm
Architects: Sofia Botteri; Patricio Connell – Botteri-Connell Office
Structure Calculus: Juan Turdo, Rosana del Pano
Contributors: Jose Mesía, Jose Chavez, Rosalía Vicente

Photography: Gustavo Sosa Pinilla

Casa Bunker Argentina images / information from Botteri-Connell Office

Location: La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America