Los Miradores | Andrés Alonso Arquitecto

Designed by Andrés Alonso Arquitecto, Los Miradores is a complex of 4 houses made for temporary use, placed in a 2,368 m2 steep-sloped plot, in the highest area of the city of Villa Allende, Córdoba.

photography by © Gonzalo Viramonte

By not having a defined user, center stage is given to the man and the woman of a globalized world, which has been losing the singularity that characterizes each region, that which gives identity and from where man is built.
From this paradigm, this work tries to recover the architectural spirit as art, an architecture that goes beyond solving the basic needs of man as a stereotyped object.

photography by © Gonzalo Viramonte

In a vertiginous world, Los Miradores seek the simplicity that encourages calm, the necessary rest that precedes the question; that question that challenges the established conventions, giving rise to a singular response from the subject pierced by the monologue of the time, that question that answers itself by contemplating the emptiness as the only way to recognize real desire, which should be the cause of all existence.
A device that uses the same principle of observance as the panopticon, but this time, at the service of the singularity of the subject that inhabits it.

photography by © Gonzalo Viramonte

Architecture as art, as a symbol of progress, which contributes to the transformation of man from an observed object to observing the subject, from the cause of his symptom and the symptom of his time, that is the idea sustaining this work.
From this reflection originates a 450 m2 scopic building, with a continuous semi-buried basement housing the bedroom area, covered in brick, retaking the regional tradition as the foundation of our identity. Above it rests the diurnal zone, materialized by four white and pure rectangular prisms of the same proportions as the base, but rotated over the service nucleus, projecting towards the horizon facing east.

photography by © Gonzalo Viramonte

Project Info:
Architects: Andrés Alonso Arquitecto
Location: Calle Incahuasi 1718, Villa Allende, Córdoba, Argentina
Architect in Charge: Andrés Alonso
Structural Calculation: Ing. Walter Morón
Area: 5026.8 ft2
Project Year: 2018
Photographs: Gonzalo Viramonte
Project Name: Los Miradores