DESCRIPTIVE MEMORY

This small block of Professional Studios is located on a tiny corner lot in La Paternal neighborhood. The urban situation for insertion is somewhat particular, as La Paternal is the typical sort of popular neighborhood, with a low scale, certainly neglected, bohemian, a soccer fan (the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium of Argentinos Juniors soccer team, which is called “the World hotbed” by its supporters, is just two blocks far from this building), with an interesting accessibility to different areas in the city and, since very few years ago, steadily growing and being renovated…  

The morphology with which the corner was conformed emerges from the structural resolution, in the manner of juxtaposed and stacked concrete plaques by gross table generating full and empty spaces, with a kind of sculptural treatment, granting identity to the building, integrating it and “making a city”…

The stacking intends to revalue the common spaces, conforming a transition space which dissolves the limits with the urban space, an empty space in the access as an internal lung that links itself both with the city and the public – private areas of the building, generating a visual continuity, light and natural 

ventilation at the entrances and halls, in the manner of an spatial situation prior to each private functional cell. 

The exclusive design of the balcony enclosures and large windows generates a metal skin which balances the emptiness with respect to the concrete mass, 

and which serves as support for complementary vegetation, a sort of green foliage that adds to the sustainability of the proposal.

The single room functional “cells” units, with the presence of wide windows that give luminosity and ventilation, are characterized by taking advantage of the space, hiding the services (kitchens and bathrooms) with a system of simil wood plaques, thus achieving flexibility and aesthetics in its use.

These boxes – typologies are thought as being small spaces for professional activities, according to the present demand, the heterogeneity of different 

professions, the time and the economy of resources…  

The volumetric and constructive coherence of the works with a limited program, together with the use of noble materials, different spatial situations, 

complemented with the proposed vegetation, close an experimental intervention which is meant to make Architecture and City…