Sens Ravignani

Located in Palermo, a neighborhood in the city of Buenos Aires, on a quiet street surrounded by trees, on a plot of 17.32 m wide, it has a particular relation with adjacent buildings, not only because of its proximity to the corner but also because of its various scales. Given this context, the project attempts to understand these determinants as potential interactions that help to tackle the land issue as the project challenge, that is to place an architectural work within an existing environment. The materialization of such interactions with their immediate surroundings is based on the premise of creating them out of a combination of concrete and metal pillars, as the language that is expressed and demonstrates the meaning of each of the elements that make it up. This structure allows continuity and discontinuity, emptiness and fullness, creating extended areas, double-high spaces and crossed views that project towards the interior thus seeking to recreate the essence of a house in a typical condominium, due to its relation with outside areas and the crossed views within the unit itself or from adjacent units. As for typology, this construction alternates various size units, spaces and relations thus suggesting ways of dealing with the repetition problem and introducing variation as another possible topic. As for functionality, these units have wet cores forming a simple common piece in the central area of the floorplan in connection with the circulation area thus improving the interior space, with internal wooden latticework that allows opening and closing. To Crown it all, the project has two four-room units in duplex, with their own terrace and swimming pool, which take advantage of the code determinants regarding setbacks, creating different exterior situations in which extensions are visually connected with the emptiness of height spaces that enlarge the atmosphere, natural lighting and internal spaces.