Frazzi arquitectos

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

DESCRIPTIVE MEMORYRoseti is focused on the research and the grouping of cells of professional work units, making up a play of volumes which generates three internal patios interacting with the urban spaces.  Immersed into a disparate context, a section of the city with a diversity of functions, where a few residences converge with office buildings and a cluster of decadent textile warehouses with internal parks in the blocks stand out, which grant a particular look to the site and allow for reflexion.The characteristic monomaterial sorrounds the works and contributes certain neutrality which becomes the protagonist. The light and the internal and external visuals form part of the matter counteracting the weight of t... More

DESCRIPTIVE MEMORYIn our spatial search, Mosconi 3 adds to the concept of free ground floor and permeability among urban and semiprivate spaces, the experimentation on the sequence of spaces and their limits within the 3 functional units that constitute the set, the movements of matter, the filter of lights and shadows, form and function… The immediate relationaship with the railway roads and the voids they generate allow a relationship of expansion toward the urban horizon.The continuity with the street is given by a free ground floor over which a series of boxes containing the dwelling cells appear as “floating”: The heaviest one, which closes the first two identical floors, and the other, which departs from the former... More

DESCRIPTIVE MEMORYThis small block of Professional Studios is located on a tiny corner lot in La Paternal neighborhood. The urban situation for insertion is somewhat particular, as La Paternal is the typical sort of popular neighborhood, with a low scale, certainly neglected, bohemian, a soccer fan (the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium of Argentinos Juniors soccer team, which is called “the World hotbed” by its supporters, is just two blocks far from this building), with an interesting accessibility to different areas in the city and, since very few years ago, steadily growing and being renovated…  The morphology with which the corner was conformed emerges from the structural resolution, in the manner of juxtaposed and stacked... More

DESCRIPTION OF THE ARCHITECTURAL WORK  The project is located in the historical city of Colonia del Sacramento -declared UNESCO World Heritage- in a privileged location meters from the river, over two grounds unified in a ¨L¨ shape, with way outs to two streets of strong gradients, typical of river ravines.Important previous research works -digging out the historical, cartographic and archaeological background of the place- and careful preliminary excavations within it, led us to discover remains of the wall and its buttresses from the former fortification of the citadel created in 1680 by the portuguese (as well as remains of old pottery and tableware, military elements, sabers and cannonballs from the many ba... More