The project is in a heterogeneous residential neighborhood, where low houses alternate with high-rise buildings. In turn, the property shared a party wall with a seven-story building, to which the regulations allowed the adaptation of a new volume, equal in height to the existing building.
The cut volumetry responds to said regulations, which require a lateral retreat of 3m from the 4th level, giving rise to a new façade: the west one.
The first challenge was to build a building that could replace a huge white party wall, deteriorated by the passage of time, with a new glass façade with views of the city, that is, go from a white blind plane to a semi-transparent plane flooded with light, where the sun from the west enters.
A highly glazed building is then proposed, closely connected to the city through its large transparent planes. A second steel skin, a tensioned perforated mesh, was placed as a filter, to achieve greater privacy in those spaces that the program required. Glass boxes house, or accommodate, the meeting spaces and are suspended with tensioners that transmit the loads to the ground through slender exposed concrete pillars. These boxes detach from the main façade, in search of better views and more sunlight, giving the inhabitant the sensation of floating over the city.
Team:
Architect: Dsg arquitectos
Other participants: Ing. Santiago Ham
Photography: Aldo Lanzi
Material Used:
1. Facade cladding: Codina Metal Mesh
2. Flooring: White Natural oak
3. Doors: Natural oak
4. Windows: Black Aluminum
5. Interior lighting: led c4 lighting
