This 270-square-metre building comprises three reinforced concrete blocks, which have large windows to exploit beautiful views of the Argentinian coast and of course, the golf course.

Each of the blocks contains a different element of the house – guest suites in the base, a living room in the middle and the master bedroom in the uppermost volume. The base block is half-buried in dune, helping to lessen the visible scale of the house from the surroundings. It’s sunken position means some bedroom windows are aligned with the ground, whereas the living room is perpendicular to this first block, resting one end on the roof of the bedrooms and the other raised on a concrete box used as a storage unit.

Wooden terraces extend from the front to the back of the house, behind large expanses of glazing. These are raised slightly above the surface of the concrete roof of the bedroom block to help shade the rooms below. The master suite, the highest block in the house, has its own private terrace that captures the views of the distant sea horizon; designed as a ‘tranquil shelter’ from the other living spaces below.

“We proposed a house entirely materialised in exposed concrete, whose noble aesthetic expression allows a respectful dialogue with its surroundings.” Kruk explained, “The architectural strategy aimed at organising the different functional requirements, distinctly grouped in three pure volumes oriented independently of one another and set at different levels.”

Project – Luciano Kruk | Photography -Daniela Mac Adden