The Stables House, Lerma Valley Holiday Home, Argentina Recycled Property, Architecture, Salta Residence Images

The Stables Weekend House in Salta

Rural Residential Redevelopment, Argentina – design by Carolina Vago Arquitectura

2 Dec 2019

Las Caballerizas

Design: Carolina Vago Arquitectura

Location: Salta Province, Argentina

Stables House Salta

Las Caballerizas is a weekend house built from the recycling of old stables. In this work the initial plans were only a starting point to start dreaming. The design, construction, re-construction and re-functionalization process was artisanal work, where everyone who participated helped build the spirit of this work, defined details and corners.

Stables House Salta Stables House Salta

“Build a ranch” where you can spend a weekend with all your children and grandchildren was the client’s request. Recover this place where he had spent his childhood. The premise was to restore the original stone construction and maintain it, despite the poor condition it was in. Recycle and re functionalize while maintaining its essence and spirit.

Stables House Salta

Stables House Salta

Implanted in a place where the landscape is the protagonist, it was another condition to take into account. How to integrate the landscape and nature into the life of the ranch? How to make them participate in the social life that I was going to have, without losing the sense of shelter that their wide stone walls transmitted?

Stables House Salta

Stables House Salta

With the horses as witnesses to the process, the project was taking shape. It was decided to use each of the boxes as bedrooms, bathrooms and a small living area. Respecting the original materials on the ground floor and their disposition, retaining even the drinking fountains of the horses. The original central courtyard scheme was maintained.

Stables House Salta

Stables House Salta

The social sector was located in a metallic pavilion on the top floor taking advantage of the uneven terrain. Constituted by a large kitchen, living room, dining room and gallery that opens outwards through large windows and is linked to the land by means of a painted sheet bridge, which is integrated with a stone terrace with a grill and clay oven under the shade of trees.

Stables House Salta

This new volume built with metal structure and glass rests on the original construction marking two different functions and two very different times of construction. Past and present coexist in harmony, together with the landscape and the family of three generations that fill all spaces with laughter and encounters.

Stables House Salta

Stables House Salta

As for the materials used, for the metallic volume upstairs, it was thought of materials of easy maintenance, as well as the possibility of being able to close the whole house during the days that it is not used. With respect to the existing ground floor and the whole, it was sought to maintain the spirit of the original construction and the place through materials, details and equipment that transmit it and are consistent with it.

Stables House Salta

The Stables House in Salta, Lerma Valley – Building Information

Architects: Carolina Vago Arquitectura

Name Office of Architecture:
Office website:
E-mail contact office: arq.cvago@gmail.com
Architects authors of the work: Achitect Carolina Vago
Location: Province Salta , Salta Capital, Argentina country
Construction term year: 2019
Constructed area: (m2) 200 m2
Photographer / Website: Gonzalo Viramonte @gonzaloviramonte

Other Participants:
Construction: Metal structures: Engineer Santiago Esquiu
Structural Calculation: Engineer Maria Marta Alemán
Design Team: architects Camila Cornejo & Lucia Spatafora

Stables House Salta

Brands / Products
Aluminum carpentry: Castellani Vidrios.
Ferrum / Johnson bathroom and kitchen appliances
Bathroom faucets: Robinet
Limestone floors: Calcarte Salta
Recycled materials / carpentry and furniture by the Study

Stables House Salta

Photographs: Gonzalo Viramonte

The Stables House in Salta, Lerma Valley images / information received 021219

Location: Salta, Argentina

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