Casa Lomadas by Grizzo Studio
Casa Lomadas is a house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Grizzo Studio. Set on a double plot with more than one hundred meters of lagoon shoreline, it is organized as an elongated concrete bar lifted over two artificial mounds. The result is less a conventional house than a sequence of paths, thresholds, and views that ties the interior to the water edge.
About Casa Lomadas
Casa Lomadas stands on a double plot with more than one hundred meters of lagoon shoreline. Its form is direct: an elongated bar of exposed concrete rests on two artificial mounds, turning the site into an inverted topography where architecture and landscape are read together.
The front mound stretches from the entry toward the lagoon and widens as it reaches the horizon. The second mound begins as vehicular access and garage, then drops into the garden before rising again as a green ramp that connects the upper floor to the shoreline.
At the meeting point of mound and bar, a double-height exterior void marks the entrance. A reflecting pool gathers the arrival, guides movement to the lateral access, and mirrors both the vegetation and the building’s edges.
Entry unfolds as a sequence rather than a fixed plan. The left mound threads into the double-height living area, where the kitchen and dining room sit within its thickness before the route ends in a gallery hovering over the lagoon.
The house is shaped by a faceted language. Inclined concrete walls, folds, and diagonals give the interior a constant relationship with the perimeter and keep the view in motion as one moves through it.
A lightweight suspended staircase links the levels and appears to rest on a large interior planter. Folded raw steel sheet gives it a crisp profile, while exposed concrete and natural stone laid like a crust establish the material order of the house.
The same material continuity carries across walls and floors, reinforcing the sense of inhabiting a single system rather than separate rooms. Architecture and terrain stay intertwined, with each surface helping define the next change in level.
Upstairs, a more public area holds the living room and study and opens onto a green terrace above the gallery. From there, a bridge crosses the entrance void and leads to the bedrooms, extending the house’s internal route before it returns to the second mound and its descending garden ramp.
The main bedroom sits at the end of the concrete bar. Large glazed openings face both directions, and the en-suite bathroom projects as the final cantilevered element, with a bathtub oriented toward the landscape and the water beyond.
The rear façade is handled with a large double-height perforated metal screen, suspended from deep beams and set apart from the main volume. It softens the hard edge of the bar, filtering light and views toward the shoreline.
Casa Lomadas works as an inhabitable topography, not a conventional domestic object. Paths, levels, and planted areas are woven into a single experience, so the house reads as a continuous passage between body, matter, and territory.
Photography by Federico Kulekdjian
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