An Envelope for Inhabiting Diversity

Located on Entre Ríos Street, near Alberti, within an area of Mar del Plata undergoing processes of urban consolidation and transformation, B_8 explores new ways of inhabiting the contemporary city. Inserted into an urban fabric where different scales, uses, and temporalities coexist, the building proposes an architectural response capable of incorporating programmatic diversity, flexibility, and collective life within a single architectural piece.

Hybrid Condition and Contemporary Urban Dynamics

The project operates through a hybrid condition that combines permanent housing with units capable of accommodating more flexible and dynamic forms of occupancy. Rather than understanding these temporalities as opposing conditions, the architecture embraces them as part of a contemporary logic of living, where residence, work, temporary stay, and urban life coexist in an integrated manner.

The units are organized through a compact and efficient spatial logic, optimizing resources without compromising environmental quality. Housing is no longer conceived through rigid programs but as a flexible support system capable of adapting to multiple forms of appropriation and everyday use.

The Envelope as an Inhabitable Thickness

Identity construction finds one of its primary architectural strategies in the building envelope. A metallic lattice unifies the reading of the volume and provides the building with a recognizable presence within the urban fabric.

Beyond its expressive dimension, the system operates as an environmental device capable of regulating views, enhancing privacy, and introducing depth to the façade. The building skin acquires thickness and becomes an intermediate condition between domestic space and the city.

The façade is no longer understood as a boundary but as a transition: a layer capable of mediating between exposure and shelter, between interior life and the urban environment.

Shared Life Above Ground

Common spaces located at the upper level expand the building’s possibilities beyond the interior of each unit. A coworking space and a multipurpose room support emerging ways of working, gathering, and social interaction, incorporating collective environments into the everyday experience of the building.

The overlap of programs reinforces the project’s hybrid character and constructs a way of inhabiting where different degrees of privacy and community coexist in balance within a single architectural structure.

Architecture and City

B_8 proposes a relationship of mutual enrichment between architecture and the urban environment. Toward the city, it contributes a contemporary, active, and recognizable presence; inwardly, it provides privacy, flexibility, and spatial quality.

More than simply resolving a compact housing building, the project explores a contemporary way of inhabiting Mar del Plata: adaptable, diverse, and deeply connected to the transformations of urban life.