In September 2021, the Dimion Tower work was inaugurated in Boyacá 490, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Designed and directed by the Forcinito Arquitectos studio and developed by Dimion Real Estate.
The entire building is conceived with an in-depth study of the city, its growth and its urban configuration, respecting the built environment, with the intention of positively participating in the consolidation of a sustainable fabric in urban and architectural terms. This objective is consolidated through an in-depth study of the Urban Code, the implementation of the work, its limitations and its possibilities, thus determining the resulting volumes. Similarly, the Forcinito Arquitectos Studio always has as its premise the production of spaces that benefit the future users of its projects, seeking to generate a unique experience in the act of living.
The volumetric conformation of this building results from the analysis of the environment and the urban regulations that define it. Projected during the transition period from the Urban Planning Code (previous) to the Urban Code (current), the volumetry responds to a typological combination. Located in what was previously the C3II zoning, the volumes between party walls respond to the maximum heights allowed, dissimilar between both streets that make up the property. At the corner, the tower detaches itself from the dividing walls, forming an independent body that respects the maximum heights of a volume with a free perimeter. In this way, the urban profile between dividing walls is consolidated without disruptions, while the free-standing tower forms a landmark in the neighborhood that materializes the corner as a morphological and symbolic value.
The materiality of the building responds to the geometric premises described. The plinth between dividing walls generates a skin of irregularly pierced exposed concrete, allowing the programmatically necessary openings and providing scale to the urban complex. The tower rises crystal clear above the openwork plates, highlighting its vertical design.
This concrete plate takes a vertical orientation on the avenue, while, on Aranguren, it takes a horizontal directionality. In this way, the concrete plates accompany and frame the normative change of both streets, dialoguing with each other, and generating the glazed tower at the intersection of both. These partitions are irregularly perforated, producing an alternate rhythm that highlights the regularity of the construction type of the courtain wall. And at the same time, the exposed concrete slabs sew both systems together, containing them and generating a morphological unit. Its horizontality contrasts with the verticality proposed for the building.
The winnowing in both cases, escape the traditional responses. The cracks in the openwork plates result in vertical windows according to the programmatic needs of the low floors in the city. On the upper floors, the glass skin resolves the search for lighting and views, but with residential characteristics, adapting a typical office technique into a new typology and resignifying it. The premise was to avoid the usual openings of horizontal property in Buenos Aires, adapting the dimension, directionality and construction technique to the real needs of its future occupants. The search, in a word, was not to repeat a standard without any reflection on the habitability, use and real needs of the building.
The intersection of both systems results in an open corner, turning the balconies into part of the architecture, instead of the appendicular projections typical of Buenos Aires neighborhoods. The concrete plate descends to half height of the pedestrian level, hanging by means of a system of tensioners in the concrete. In this way it generates and invites access and incorporates it into the general morphology. In this way, the balconies, the access and the windows result from the general logic of the building, instead of being its conditioning factors. The auction is made up of a larger-scale glazed volume, which frames the amenities.
The building has premium units of 3 and 4 rooms with dependency, with finishes and interior design atypical in the neighborhood. Amenities of different scope were designed, where the covered and heated pool on the last level, a multipurpose room, kids club and gym stand out. At the top of the building, this indoor pool was proposed, forming useful amenities all year round, with views of the entire city. The intention, once again, was to escape preconceptions and simply comply with the inevitable commercial requirements of a business in Buenos Aires. The swimming pool and the multipurpose room function, then, as the finale of the building and of the entire act of inhabiting the city. They produce a meeting space, joining the urban environment from the upper levels, with privileged views. Thus, these amenities do not hide their true urban implantation, (as usually happens in most urban commercial developments, in which they are located in residual places of the land due to its regulations) but on the contrary, they adapt and incorporate to the useful life of the building.
In short, the Dimion Tower was designed with the aim of incorporating a volume that dialogues effectively with the environment and responds to the limitations and possibilities of regulations in a positive and purposeful way. Similarly, we thought of a morphology that responds to producing an unprecedented experience in the way of living in the city and with a materiality that responds to all these premises, in a reliable, explicit and expressive way.
ORCINITO ARQUITECTOS (www.forcinitoarqs.com)
Name: TORRE DIMION
Location: av. Boyaca 490, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Project start date: 2018
Status: Completed in 2021
Size: 4.998m2
Units:24
Author: Martin Forcinito
Co-Author: Teodoro Tenenbaum
Construction Management: Mariela Muñoz
Team: Sergio Fernandez, Fernando Brunstein, Malena Villafañe, Gustavo Grassano
Client: Dimion Real Estate (www.dimion.com.ar)
Photographs: Albano Garcia (http://albanogarcia.com.ar)
