RURAL GUESTHOUSE LA REUNIÓN
IR arquitectura, Menhir Arquitectura
ARCHITECTS
IR arquitectura, Menhir Arquitectura
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Enrico Cavaglià, Luciano Intile
DESIGN TEAM
Francisco Escapil, Julia Cattani, Lucila Pistolesi, Fermin Indavere
ENGINEERING & CONSULTING > OTHER
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PHOTOGRAPHS
Javier Agustin Rojas
AREA
157 m²
YEAR
2025
LOCATION
Rawson, Argentina
CATEGORY
Tourism, Refurbishment, Renovation
English description provided by the architects.
La Reunión is set on a large-scale rural site on the outskirts of Rawson, in the province of Buenos Aires, within a dense and uncommon woodland in the otherwise open geography of the area.
The project begins with the recovery of a small existing rural house, consolidating its compact volume and austere character as the foundation of the ensemble.
The intervention respects the simple geometry of the original building, reinforcing the continuity of its white walls and regularizing its openings.
Access is defined by an arch embedded within the thickness of the wall, establishing a precise transition between exterior and interior.
A brick-paved surface organizes the immediate edge and constructs an antechamber open to the wooded landscape.
Inside, the original layout is reorganized around a central void covered by a lightweight greenhouse that acts as a climatic regulator and shared space. This area concentrates the kitchen and communal activities, incorporating vegetation and modulating light through a suspended textile system beneath the translucent roof.
The operation transforms the heart of the house without altering its perimeter.
Individual rooms are arranged along the existing perimeter, maintaining original proportions and materiality.
Cement tile floors are preserved where possible, and new additions, such as metal joinery, furniture, and storage elements, are resolved through simple, demountable systems that update functionality without competing with the inherited structure.
The project is conceived to host temporary forms of shared living: gatherings of friends, shared remote work periods, and retreats for artists or researchers.
The spatial organization allows for the alternation of individual and communal spaces without forced overlap, enabling varying degrees of privacy and simultaneous use.
In this sense, La Reunión functions both as a dwelling and as a domestic-scale cultural infrastructure, introducing a new activity into the context of the town.
La Reunión is not conceived as a finished work. The project establishes an open structure that allows for the future incorporation of new elements distributed across the site—a swimming pool, an open-air amphitheater, a café, the recovery of an existing shed as a multipurpose hall, an observation tower— which will be developed progressively over the coming years.
These components will expand the scope of the ensemble, activating the woodland and consolidating the site as a place for gathering, production, and temporary stay.
