Located in the Martínez neighborhood, north of Buenos Aires and steps from the Río de la Plata, this contemporary house is built within a subdivided estate featuring an early 20th-century landscape design by Carlos Thays. The presence of a large white eucalyptus tree defines the site strategy and organizes the project, conceived as a volume that embraces an interior courtyard.

The house combines concrete, a steel structure, and aluminum carpentry, with interior partitions in wood. The structural columns are set back from the façade line, allowing a thin concrete overhang to incorporate screens between the glazing and the structural frame, thus freeing the view and granting prominence to glass as the dominant material. This operation produces controlled transparency and a fluid relationship with the outdoors.

On the ground floor, the living areas open toward the northwest-facing park and toward the central courtyard on the remaining sides. The courtyard is primarily connected to an aquarium for pisciculture, reflecting one of the residents’ hobbies.

The upper level has the bedrooms, a study, a yoga room, and a skylight that frames the sky and surrounding vegetation. The ascending sequence creates a series of visual encounters that reinforce the connection with the natural environment.

The perforated volume allows the existing tree to grow freely. The result is a house that integrates domestic life, well-being, and nature, offering its two professional inhabitants a retreat on the boundary between the city and the riverside landscape