2025 • Design Charette
landscape of Patagonia. Organized around a continuous sequence from an exterior barbecue spit to an interior vernacular oven, the project engages food production as a central element of Patagonian life.
The displacement of the house’s inner and outer shells negotiates these cooking
spaces in varied ways—whether through the slippage of the exterior envelope or the operability of articulated volumes, the architecture frames and protects both indoor and outdoor preparation zones from the region’s harsh climate. To withstand the extreme environmental conditions, the house employs vernacular red corrugated metal paneling as a rigid, protective outer skin, offset against a misaligned wood-framed inner sleeve. This poche discrepancy generates a layered spatial tension, where the centralized smoker oven and chimney puncture the massing, and where exterior panels slide open to define entry sequences and shelter outdoor cooking areas.
These circles also define the language of the floor, and spatial differentiation inside. As the radii approach the internal volume, the walls
and floors are carved by imposition of the exterior space. This outside-in approach allows the interior to follow a logic of discovery
through discursive devices. Primarily a formal gesture, these carvings find their way into the pragmatic divisions of storage, stepped
volumes and gathering spaces. Another point of departure for the discovery of the internal experience was the indifference of the internal shell to the shape of the external envelope. Sectionally, the poche takes on different characteristics as certain important functions are embedded into the walls and floors of the project.
the poche, dissolving the perceptual boundary between the two massing elements and enabling inhabitation between their layers.
The project’s aesthetic expression emerges from its material strategy, leveraging the ubiquitous red corrugated metal of the Patagonian vernacular. This not only situates the house within the region’s material ecology but also heightens its legibility as an iconographic object within the landscape.