Site Plan - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Main entrance over a bridge to get to building. Klotz focuses on a guided circultaion in fitting with the length of the house.
The journey through the house is completely thought out by the architect with the entrance inviting people to the house with a dramtic concrete arch.
The journey through the house is completely thought out by the architect with the entrance inviting people to the house with a dramtic concrete arch.
Open floor space, showing ribbon windows and views of river. Klotz intended to make the windows low enough to give the water the appearance of cantilevering from the building.
This is in fitting with the style of the building balancing on edge, giving it a delicacy.
This section shows how the weight is focused throughout the house and shows the importance structure has in this design. The purpose of cantilevering the building is to create a sense of weightlessness. It hardly touches the earth and fits in easily with the site's topography. When experiencing the space you feel as if you are hardly in a building because the windows incorporate so much of the environment and the floors seem unsupported by the land.