{"id":852,"date":"2025-09-25T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/?p=852"},"modified":"2025-10-02T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T16:15:57","slug":"of-studio-designs-argentinian-mountain-house-that-emerges-from-the-terrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scientificmediagroup.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/25\/of-studio-designs-argentinian-mountain-house-that-emerges-from-the-terrain\/","title":{"rendered":"OF Studio designs Argentinian mountain house that “emerges from the terrain”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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International architecture practice OF Studio has created a brutalist concrete house<\/a> with a cantilevered terrace and sloped foundations shaped by its site on a mountainside<\/a> in Mendoza, Argentina<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Completed in 2024, the 571-square metre (6,146-square-foot) house known as Brutal Honesty took six years to construct on the edge of a canyon.<\/p>\n

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Brutal Honesty took six years to construct on the edge of a canyon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OF Studio<\/a>, co-founded in London in 2017 by Argentinian architects Valentina Cerrone and Sebasti\u00e1n Andia, was informed by the raw presence, texture, and silence of the mountain itself.<\/p>\n

“The house emerges naturally from the terrain, shaping a landscape that coexists with its surroundings,” Andia told Dezeen. “We worked with material honesty, tectonics, and integrated sustainability, letting the architecture grow from the site itself.”<\/p>\n

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OF Studio designed the mountain house to look as if it is emerging “from the terrain\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The house rises from the terrain on earth-coloured retaining walls “like abstract rock formations,” the studio explained, noting that the contours of the land drove the organisation of internal partitions and three main terraces.<\/p>\n

The splaying walls define the tapering massing while shielding the house from the southern exposure of the canyon.<\/p>\n

“The structure seems to emerge from the hill, yet asserts a new identity,” the team explained, calling it “of abstract nature”.<\/p>\n

With a 360-degree view of the Andean desert mountains, the house is separated into three stacked stages: a basement inside the earth, a partially embedded ground floor and an upper level that rises out of the earth.<\/p>\n

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The home is separated into three stacked stages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The kitchen sits at the heart of the home, branching off into communal spaces that stretch outwards in rounded-off angles.<\/p>\n

Terraces extend off either side of the living and dining rooms, while a terrace off the playroom provides an outdoor zone for children. Shared outdoor spaces extend to the rooftop plateau with areas for recreation and relaxation surrounded by the landscape.<\/p>\n

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OF Studio placed the kitchen at the heart of the house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The edges of the upper plateau are outlined with rounded rectangular awnings with structural rods that shade the lower terraces and add a level of delicate detail in the stereotomic house.<\/p>\n

The clients emphasised the importance of living with the land, maintaining views of the land, while preserving privacy.<\/p>\n