This single house is located in a closed neighborhood, 30km. away from Buenos Aires. The lot, 20 meters wide and 50 meters length with 3 meter of lateral retreats, has amazing views to the lake we could not let aside.The surrounding houses and the wide lot marked the visuals we should use.

The waterfall house was conceived by the request of a young business man in a closed neighborhood. The particularities and requisites of the client, among with the lot’s characteristics, established the path to follow in the design process.The borders of the small lot we are referring to, seem to disappear in the predominant visuals: the lake.The surrounding houses, the sun’s path and the visual were needed to understand the emplacement.

Thomas Bercy and Calvin Chen are Texas-based architects who eager to grow work that combine sensitivity to local context with an inventive use of resources. This Peninsula Residence was one of the representations of their ideal platform in architectural vision they have been maintained. The project was a challenge to develop a susceptible and creative result from a pre-existing condition of a 1980’s house fronting on Lake Austin. Through the use of refined detailing of the exterior materials such as the roof structure, glass, and steel, the home had been adaptively reinvented.

The project looked for a strong relation with the exterior landscape without repeating the urban model of a house with small openings. This is why the ground floor’s sector that faces the lake opens almost completely to the exterior, with large floor to ceiling windows. These large glazed panels that let the light in also allow to get in direct contact with the garden’s grass, the water in the pool and the lake.