DESCRIPTIVE MEMORY
On the basis of two chorizo houses (sausage – houses, a typical sort of building from buenos aires) with commercial stores in the front from 1900, which
belonged to cándido boschini (one of the first inhabitants in the neighborhood), it was projected to recycle this set of 6 functional units, an urban piece that
coexists with the old trees and the quietness of villa devoto neighborhood.
The language of the buildings from the past was thoroughly respected in such a way that the intervention of modernity brings it back to the present time…
Cedar carpentry, glass partitions with color spreads, latticework, ribbed metal curtains from old stores, wide brick walls, pinotea, etc. were set in value and
in a dialogue with the new intervention.
We intended to reformulate the spirit of the old chorizo houses which are now converted into the typical ph (a kind of horizontal property) with a corridor
leading from front to back of house, but experimenting a new spatiality, where the continuity of the exterior-interior flooring, together with the imposing
presence of the side door gate give us access to the lateral housing and the counterfront, where a series of irregular fences take us to the heart of the housing set: “the large internal patio – urban space” where the life of the houses takes place.
The spatiality of the lateral unit (developed in one plant) with its integrated spaces, double height, the gables, and the original sculptural piece conformed by the toilet – home has a strong interior-exterior linking... A stairway system with premoulded concrete steps manufactured in the work connects the three plants of the counterfront unit, from a particular living room, passing across the intermediate plant of bedrooms and ending in a cozy terrace – viewing point, from where the spatiality of the whole set can be appreciated. the front loft- type unit, generated from the old store that belonged to the boschinis was reformulated with a similar characteristic but in a more informal spirit.
...the spirit of the neighborhood... the trees... the past... the present... the future…
