Neo Borrel

Casa Pablo

Private house, 170 m²

Funes, Santa Fe, Argentina2025–2026BuiltWith Estudio Arq. Martín Sandiano
The finished house seen close: a dark standing-seam metal roof meeting dark timber siding, against a bright cloudy sky.

A single-family house in Funes, built in a mixed system — a cold-formed steel frame with SIP panel infill, wrapped in a breathable membrane and clad in siding. The work ran from the preliminary analysis of urban indicators and municipal code through to the construction set: plans, elevations, sections, services layouts and the window schedule, plus the fixed furniture. A house in a non-traditional system leaves almost no room to improvise on site, so the drawings have to carry the project.

  • Urban indicators and municipal code
  • Design development
  • 3D modelling
  • Construction documentation
  • Services layouts
  • Kitchen joinery
Looking up at the eave: the dark roof plane and its soffit carried past the wall, against a clear sky.
The eave, as built.
The steel frame during construction: a painted steel portal carrying the timber roof structure over an unfinished interior.
The house from the garden during construction, steel frame and timber roof in place and cladding under way.
The kitchen design: dark cabinetry against a backlit stone panel, under a recessed dark ceiling.
Kitchen corner: open shelving set into a timber-lined return beneath the dark soffit.

Process

The frame was set out in three dimensions before anything was fabricated, and the envelope, the services and the openings were each drawn in full, so the trades could work from the set rather than from the model.

Working 3D model of the house on its plot, showing the roof form, the terrace and the pool.
Ground floor plan on the site, with the existing trees surveyed and the house set against the plot boundary.
Dimensioned front and rear elevations showing the two-storey volume and its openings.
Ground floor electrical plan: circuits, outlets and fittings laid over the architectural plan.
Services are drawn, not left to the site.