Roberto Benito Arquitecto has completed a family house with a bold volume made of rusted metal volume sheets in Córdoba, Argentina. 

Named Vivienda “Texturas”, the house was completed as part of a continuous search to achieve a textural architecture, a research is reflected in this house with notoriety.

The significance given to materiality, represented by the nakedness and honesty of some natural finishes, makes it acquire a great relevance in expressiveness

st in layers with different components in the dosage, giving it the appearance of geological strata. Above these walls, that form blocks that separate and contain, rests a slab made of precast concrete joists, that are manifested inside. Upper part is covered by aluminized sheet.

This large “lid” is expressed as a rusted metal sheet border that runs around the perimeter and at some point it volumizes reaching the floor. The partition and disaggregation of the voids was a premise, to provide the spaces with an interior / exterior continuity according to their use and privacy