The project proposes a very simple operation: the addition of a volume resulting from the maximum exploitation of usable land after applying the mandatory setbacks and considering the leftover area of the existing warehouse (shed). It is located along a high-speed vehicular corridor that crosses the city of Rosario in a southwest–northeast direction. The neighborhood is predominantly residential, with low-density housing, industries, large commercial establishments, and warehouses.
The corner lot has the geometry of a right trapezoid and required a mandatory 10-meter setback from the municipal boundary along Juan Domingo Perón Avenue.
Starting from the project's initial intentions—to create visual, physical, and perceptual relationships both from the inside out and from the outside in—various material and technical resources were used to achieve different levels of visual and physical privacy.
For the exterior enclosures, pre-painted, micro-perforated corrugated metal sheets in ash gray were used. The offices on the upper floor open visually to the outside through 5+5 mm laminated glass, which simultaneously reflects the immediate landscape and reveals the interior materiality. The volume housing the program—offices, reception, changing rooms, and meeting room—is built from 18 mm eucalyptus plywood.
At the urban plinth level, micro-perforated corrugated sheets were used, allowing visual transparency between interior and exterior as well as continuous airflow. The administrative area is located behind this screen, 2 meters back, enclosed by a partition, forming a closed space. Visual connections are immediate and close-range on the ground floor, where the warehouse and administration are located, and more extensive on the upper floor, where the offices and meeting room are.
The building was conceived as an object of linkage, designed to create a connection between adjacent blocks, acting as a vehicle for unifying these urban conditions.
Tectonically, the aim was to generate a piece that appears from the outside as solid, enclosed, and compact, while from the inside looking out, it is open, fluid, bright, and warm.
