Hello friends of hive, and a warm greeting to the members of this beautiful community. I have recently rejoined hive, and as usual, I would like to take the opportunity to talk about what I have been doing in recent months and nothing better than taking advantage of today's activity dedicated to passions to talk about what I like the most.

This semester we start by reading Project Design is Research, a book by Alberto Campo Baeza that analyzes the importance of the research process in design and explains how design can be a tool to solve problems and develop better solutions.

Designing, according to Campo Baeza, is not only about creating beautiful objects and spaces, but also about understanding people and the way they interact with the world through observation, experimentation, and deep analysis.

It's a text that invites us to introspect about the creative process, which does not consist of simply setting in motion the first thing we have in mind, but is instead a complex process that arises from many previous procedures in order to reach a result.

To go into detail with this research process, we set ourselves the task of investigating independently, a house of relevance in the era of Modernity, to such a level of knowing it as if we had designed it ourselves, in my case I had to develop this first exercise with the House on The River by Amancio Williams. I'm going to show some diagrams and planimetry that I made at the beginning of the semester.

The Amancio Williams House on the River is a house located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, built in 1943.

This house was one of the first examples of modernist architecture in the country, combining traditional Argentine design with many elements characteristic of modern architecture, such as the sliding window and the open floor plan.

It is a house formed by a rectangular prismatic module that rests on a bridge, joining the two ends of a plot that is divided in the middle by a stream.

It has a simple program that divides the house into two parts, one corresponding to the private areas (bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and study), and the other for the general common space and its accesses, which are two staircases that rest on the curvature of the bridge located right in the center of the house.

As for the materiality, it has an exterior almost entirely of reinforced concrete chemically treated to achieve a certain texture, it has wood cladding on the inside, and the glass of the perimeter window runs along the 4 sides of the house.

After studying and reading about the house, we were presented with the exercise of synthesizing the fundamentals of the house in 3 points. In my opinion in the House on the River we found that the Implantation, Arch Structure, and Natural lighting would be the themes with which I would define the house.

1. IMPLANTATION

This configuration is executed over the course of the water to respect the vegetation and to unite both ends of the stream.

The house seeks to generate a harmonious integration of the environment with the whole architectural event where the implantation connects the two ends of the stream without interrupting its course.

The elevation of the prism over the stream gives the house acoustic qualities and the sensation of floating.

2. ESTRUCTURE

The structure is composed of 20 pillars that support it along with 7 partitions. The weight of the house is supported by load-bearing walls that help to free the floor plan so that the weight is not supported by the enclosure.

These walls that support the house are not supported by the ground, but are supported by a central reinforced concrete arch that distributes the total weight of the house to its foundations at the ends of the arch.

The walls not only support but also help to delimit certain spaces.

3. NATURAL LIGHTING

The facade of this house is simple and linear, with large windows that allow the entry of lots of natural light, and illuminates the house throughout the day thanks to these.

It also has small windows in the accesses next to the stairs.

All these facade coverings serve only to delimit the space of the enclosures, and allow the passage of light, but the structure does not depend on this.

This work led to a new exercise called Sampling, which I will tell you about later so as not to make such a long post, but for now, I hope you have enjoyed the analysis of this house.

I hope you liked it. Thanks for watching ฅ^-ﻌ-^ฅ♡