The 150-square-metre project is located on a farm in Argentina's subtropical Pampas region, which consists of agricultural fields that stretch over flat plains. The building site is surrounded by crops, sheep and polo horses.
Long and rectangular in plan, the building sits atop a platform and is covered with a gabled roof. The house was designed by DUB Arquitectura, a studio based in Buenos Aires, to follow the site conditions and to allow for future expansion.
The interior is divided into four main areas: a kitchen and dining room, a bedroom, a bathroom, and a multi-purpose attic space. A breezeway lies at the centre of the plan.
Facades are clad in corrugated metal sheets, and plywood was used abundantly within the house.
Discarded sheep wool was used for insulation, making use of a local product. The team said 4,000 tons of sheep wool are discarded yearly in the province of Buenos Aries.
The insulation thickness varies around the house, depending upon the orientation to the sun.
"The house was used as a case study to implement the first insulating blankets made from discarded wool from this particular region, which is usually burnt," the team said.
Source: Dezeen
