GP House

GP House is a residence in Mendoza, Argentina, designed by Anfibio Arquitectos to serve a dual life: it is both a family home and a workspace for one of its inhabitants. The plan reads clearly because that double purpose is written into its form. Three prisms organize the house around a triple function of social space, private space and work space, and these volumes appear externally as two strata in two shades, achieved with a single material that keeps the exterior calm and legible.

Working a home and a workplace into one structure is one of the more demanding briefs in domestic architecture, because the two uses ask for different rhythms. The work area needs concentration and a degree of separation, while the social and private rooms need ease and rest. Anfibio Arquitectos answers this by giving each function its own prism, so the boundaries are felt without heavy partitions, and the transparency of the layout lets each part of the house stay understood at a glance.

A house shaped by its garden

The main entrance sits to one side and invites a tour rather than a direct arrival. Before reaching the rooms, a green space to walk through acts as a transition between exterior and interior, a threshold that slows the visitor and prepares them for the quieter world inside. This kind of garden-as-prelude is a long tradition in housing design, where the approach to a house is treated as part of the experience and not merely a path.

Inside, warmth comes from the materials. White surfaces reflect and increase the interior luminosity while setting off the second main material, wood, which appears as paneling that accompanies the whole interior. Rest, disconnection and calm are sought in every corner. The green space wraps the house and gives each interior room its own outlook, so each space is read as unique. From every interior, a framing is projected outward, building a variety of relationships between inside and outside. These frames do more than open and light the rooms; in repeated moments through the house they become small places for rest, reading and contemplation.

The result, set against the dry mountain light of Mendoza, is a home where structure, garden and material all work toward the same quiet end. GP House shows how a single clear idea, carried through form and detail, can hold work and family life together under one roof.