Buenos aires

Located within the Al Río complex in Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Argentina—a development with a strong architectural identity and an evolving urban context—the Norimōto [1] project emerges from the pursuit of a balance between the identity of the site, the precision of Japanese gastronomy, and an architecture capable of embracing both through subtlety and material honesty. The intervention occupies a prominent corner space, highly exposed to the public realm. In response to this condition, the design avoids excessive formal gestures, finding its expression in a restrained palette of materials, geometric clarity, and the careful manipulation of light. Bruto Studio Bruto Studio Bruto Studio Bruto... More

TRADITION AND MODERNITY The project is proposed as a careful intervention that will mediate between the existing constructions and the new ones. The formal resolutions of the proposed architectures dialogue with the traditional roofs of riverside constructions with 4-sloped roofs. The will of the new is to fit into the system of pre-existing buildings to be restored and preserved. EMILIANO GATTI EMILIANO GATTI EMILIANO GATTI Dario Valdez - Thomas Berardi - Mauro Bavaro Dario Valdez - Thomas Berardi - Mauro Bavaro Dario Valdez - Thomas Berardi - Mauro Bavaro Dario Valdez - Thomas Berardi - Mauro Bavaro Dario Valdez - Thomas Berardi - Mauro Bavaro Dario Valdez - Thomas Berardi - Mauro Bavaro Da... More

This reform poses the challenge of reorganizing a typical apartment from the mid-20th century in Buenos Aires, of minimal dimensions, to adapt it to current times. Bruto Studio Bruto Studio Bruto Studio Bruto Studio With this premise, the separate rooms are integrated according to their function (previously determined), to give rise to a new way of living. Of the living room -for social life-, of the bedroom -for rest- and of the kitchen -as a service-; We move on to an open space where the furniture organizes the interior life.  Bruto Studio Bruto Studio Bruto Studio Bruto Studio The intervention reimagines and updates the way of living in this small space, optimizing the distribution of stora... More

Do or RedoFifty years later, a house no longer meets the demand for which it was created. If, then, we must choose between transforming an existing suburban house or building a new one, there is an ethical question that surpasses the merely economic equation. As architects we must rethink the impact that generates replacing a piece where it can be refunctionalized. And that decision comes prior to the project.Having then made the decision to readapt a construction, the search was oriented towards a structure that was as basic as possible, which would allow a certain freedom for a programmatic readjustment. An existing house was then chosen, made up of a pure brick volume with a gable roof, with a 9 x 9 square geometric plan, and two adjacen... More

This project stems from the need to modernize the branch, using new materials and revaluing the space to adapt to current needs. The program includes new workstations, a new private office, the design of a new store marquee, and the possibility to take advantage of the original height, that was hidden above the sheetrock ceilings. A new aluminum composite cladding was specially designed, to create an interesting background for the employees. It's geometric modules evoke the company logo. An iron map of Buenos Aires was also designed to show the company's branches as pins.Finally, the rise of the ceiling generated different heights and the glass facade was enlarged, achieving an increase of natural lighting and improving the interior-exte... More

DESCRIPTIVE MEMORY...Villa del Parque... The green of trees.... Low houses ... A quiet neighborhood... The building develops into a free ground floor, a single space, from where it is possible to appreciate the visual continuity of the typical park of a building which is connected to the city.A concrete box contains folded brick walls in the manner of “ribbons”, as if they were a “hand” that grabs the building.Within the park – a lot of 17, 32 metres in the front by 53 metres in depth, the access is achieved through a dry square sorrounded by 2 patios as block interiors, from where a glazed hall – volume with gardens and water fountains around it allow the access to the semi private area of the building.The arrival to each dwelling uni... More

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... More

DESCRIPTIVE MEMORYThe building opens to the city... It may be observed from the railway station… Its cutout can be seen as one approaches it from The park and gets immersed into the grove of the seminary…The facades multiply... The building appears just as it is, without hiding its noble materials and simplicity, which make it to look strong and unique…Due to the closeness with the railway station, the Villa Devoto seminary and the nearby greenhouse, the building appears as being “liberated” thanks to the distension generated by the open spaces with trees.The presence of the centenary tipa trees along the seminary sidewalk, with their particular height, foliage and yellow flowers, embraces the building and ... More

DESCRIPTIVE MEMORYCaballito neighborhood is characterized by its low old –style houses which date back to the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, granting a particular and interesting identity to the area with a certain degree of nostalgia.When the project was commissioned, we found a splendid casa chorizo (Sausage-house, a typical sort of construction in buenos aires) from 1913, with perimetral walls of 45 cm and double height vaulted roofs, the classic adjacent rooms, and the patio with a gallery.The intervention consisted in turning the house into a condominium of three loft type residences on three plants, enhancing the existing expressive noble materials such as bricks, vaults, metal beams, pinotea b... More

DESCRIPTIVE MEMORYThe concrete folds and generates the volumetry of the works, with an experimental character and a sculptural treatment… It generates spaces, gaps, breaks, and double heights… The result consists of two residences stacked at height with the characteristics of a house, but developed in four storeys… The spatial perceptions are rich and varied: - the free ground floor linked to the internal park – patio and to the public space, with flexibility in its use…  - The staircase, not only as a linking element (ground floor to terrace), but also as an element generating spatial situations on the way (overhanging stair landings, double heights, projections, visuals to the garden)…- Double heights in hall... More

DESCRIPTIVE MEMORYIn the typical latest proposal for urban phs (a type of horizontal property) which consists in 2 blocks separated by a nucleus, it was intended to seek for a link between the public and private urban space by means of successive open spaces that multiply in the volumetric proposal.A free ground floor was provided, where the stairway system leading to the different stair landings is displayed between liberated spaces with natural light entry and cross ventilations as protagonists that result in a housing type with semi-public and semi-covered spaces quite different from the typical horizontal property buildings.  The functional proposal is conformed by dwelling monocells which are converted into duplex on the last... More

DESCRIPTIVE MEMORY By the end of the nineteenth century, a new type of building appeared within the city grid: the general store. This kind of stores usually had a series of adjacent rooms expanding into an internal patio with a gallery, and consequently, they connected work and housing functionally in the same plot of land.They normally completed the block fabric by closing the corners at the municipal lines. These enclaves were built by immigrants who used the construction techniques inherited from their countries of origin.This type of stores eventually shut down due to changes in the customs of the society, which preferred other ways of provisioning, as well as to the physical and cultural disappearance of their former founders.In most... More