Tucked away in the heart of Mendoza, a catering-company-meets-restaurant is facilitating an authentic and exciting way to eat like an Argentinian—even if just for the day. Started by ex-pats Reesa Kashuk, Alise Howell, Mateo Fabersunne and local chef Lau Pinna, Tres Arbolitos is…
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À l’occasion du lancement du Coca-Cola Life en Argentine, moins sucré et très bien accueilli par les consommateurs, la marque fait appel à Platform, une agence américaine basée à Seattle, pour créer l’habillage de celui-ci. Le résultat est très réussi et à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.
Argentinean studio Adamo-Faiden has overhauled an ageing townhouse in Buenos Aires with the addition of a rooftop courtyard and an underground yoga room.
The house had been used in various guises throughout its history, most recently as an apartment block, and Marcelo Faiden and Sebastian Adamo were asked to restore the building as a home for the Venturini family.
The architects began by removing superfluous partitions and stripping the structure back to its basic form. They then re-planned the layout and worked out where they could add extra rooms.
“Our intervention can be summarised in three actions: extraction, redescription and addition,” they explain.
An extra roof inserted over the house’s old courtyard encloses the new basement-level yoga room, which is lit from above by a strip of skylights.
The surface of this roof also provides a new ground-floor patio, allowing the family to open out their living room to a secluded outdoor space.
Another storey added over the roof of the building provides a room that can be used for guests. This leads out to the new rooftop courtyard.
The roof of this extension has a V-shaped profile, making it the most noticeable addition to the traditional facade.
Adamo-Faiden has worked on a number of residential projects in Buenos Aires. Others include a fabric tensile structure at a renovated apartment and social housing installed on top of existing homes. See more architecture by Adamo-Faiden.
Other houses we’ve featured from Argentina include a residence comprising two brick boxes and a brick house wrapped in a band of white concrete. See more architecture in Argentina.
Photography is by Cristobal Palma.
Read on for more text from Adamo-Faiden:
Venturini House
The house is located close to the Abasto Market, transformed into a commercial centre. Like the market, the house where the Venturini family presently lives has homed a variety of different uses. At the time of the construction the house functioned as a house for rent. Its organisation responded to a very common typology in the city of Buenos Aires. Small houses were located towards the interior of the block, whereas the one belonging to the owner was the facade to the street. The devaluation of this area of the city towards the middle of last century brought about the occupation of the main house, being transformed into a tenement house.
Our intervention can be summarised in three actions: extraction, redescription and addition. The first of them meant the recovery of the original spatial structure. The second phase of the project was simply based on labelling again each of the spaces in order to adapt the existing structure to contemporary way of life. Finally, the last action was based in two precise additions. The first of them was the materialisation of a mezzanine floor which allowed us to simultaneously cover a yoga room in the basement and to give support to an exterior expansion for the living room area. At last, the construction of a light structure on the roof, for multiple uses, made visible the optimism that follows the revaluation of the city as a way of new crowning for the property.
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La photographe française Pauline Ballet a réalisé lors d’un voyage en Argentine en fin d’année 2012 cette série appelée sobrement Fantasias Argentinas. Des clichés de nuit envoutants où « le quotidien côtoie le divin dans une ambiance surréelle ». L’ensemble des clichés sont à découvrir dans la suite.
Shimmering steel panels chequer the facade of this office building at an aluminium plant outside Buenos Aires by Argentinean architects Adamo-Faiden and Estudio Silberfaden.
The small two-storey block adjoins the southern corner of the Hydro Aluminium factory, where it serves as an administrative block for the Norwegian metal company.
Adamo-Faiden teamed up with Estudio Silberfaden to design the offices, which feature floor-to-ceiling windows and glazed internal partitons to increase natural light.
There’s also a terrace and garden covering the roof, protected behind a wire fence.
A steel staircase connects both office levels with the top floor terrace. Behind it, doors lead through to the main building on each storey so the stairs can also be used by employees inside the factory.
“This pavilion annex wants to answer two specific needs,” explain Marcelo Faiden and Sebastian Adamo. “First, to build office space for administrative, technical and management areas, and secondly, to incorporate a circulation system linking the levels of both buildings and finishing in an open area.”
Adamo-Faiden often design buildings with terraces on the rooftops, including a building that could be either offices or apartments, and the recently completed house Casa Martos. See more architecture by Adamo-Faiden.
Other recent projects in Argentina include black-painted housing in Patagonia and a house with an exceptionally tall front door. See more architecture in Argentina.
Photography is by Gustavo Sosa Pinilla.
Above: site plan
Above: ground floor plan
Above: first floor plan
Above: roof plan
Above: cross section
Above: front elevation
Above: side elevation
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This lopsided house by Argentinean studio Adamo-Faiden has a pointed balcony poking out of one side and a caged terrace on the roof (+ slideshow + photos by Cristobal Palma).
Located in Villa Adelina, a suburb in the north of Buenos Aires, the two-storey Casa Martos butts up against a neighbouring commercial building of the same height and Adamo-Faiden has matched the proportions of the volumes to tie together the conflicting architectural styles.
The facade of the house faces south-west, which architect Marcelo Faiden explains was to bring in natural light and prevent any issues with overlooking windows from the other two properties. “This decision allowed us to cover the ten-metre-high party wall, maintaining the existing sunlight and generating long views to the new house,” he said.
The balcony shelf protrudes from this glazed elevation behind a layer of metal fencing, creating a ledge of plants beside the first floor window. Faiden added: “From the inside, the vegetation of the double enclosure seems to merge with the patio of the next plot.”
A small room and garage occupy the ground floor of the house, while the bedroom, bathroom and living room are positioned on the first floor.
The architects compare the project with Casas Lago, their first built project, which also features a rooftop terrace. “In both cases the new construction tries to create a relation with the urban fabric through an immaterial, open air room located on the terrace,” said Faiden.
Since completing Casas Lago, Adamo Faiden has worked on a number of residential projects, including designs for social housing on top of existing homes and a housing block that could also be used as offices. See more architecture by Adamo Faiden.
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Photography is by Cristobal Palma. See all our stories featuring Cristobal Palma’s photos.
Here’s a short description from Adamo-Faiden:
Martos House
The house is located in Villa Adelina, a neighbourhood in the north area of Buenos Aires suburbs where great commercial activities, industries and housing coexist.
The construction is close to the street in a lot where a prefabricated house already occupies the central area of it.
The characteristics of the buildings nearby, determine the position of the new house. An industrial building generates towards one side a 10 meters height division wall that is used to structure lengthwise the house while orientating all the interior spaces towards the garden of the opposite field.
A metal tray runs all along the structure length, becoming a shell for a new vegetation that gazes from the inside and seems to merge with the neighbouring garden.
Above: site plan – click above for larger image
Above: ground floor plan – click above for larger image
Above: first floor plan – click above for larger image
Above: roof plan – click above for larger image
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Above: front elevation – click above for larger image
Above: rear elevation – click above for larger image
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Avec ce spot appelé sobrement « Mankind », l’agence argentine Plenty nous propose une très belle création identitaire pour la célèbre chaîne de télévision History Channel. Retraçant les grandes étapes de l’humanité en l’espace de 30 secondes, cette création se dévoile dans la suite en images et en vidéo HD.
For the final video from our adventures in Buenos Aires we visit the studio of the fantastic visual artist Manuel Ameztoy. Ameztoy works exclusively with paper cut-outs, creating fragile installations on an epic scale. We caught up with him the day after his opening at the city’s Faena Arts…
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While in Buenos Aires we stumbled across a curious manufacturing operation nestled in an alley and realized it was a unique opportunity for CH Video. Alicia Muñiz, the founder and designer of Comme il Faut, has been dancing tango most of her life. Dissatisfied with the available tango shoes…
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Architects Estudio BaBO clad these three wooden houses in Patagonia, Argentina, with black-painted cypress so that they would look “as monolithic as possible” (+ slideshow).
“Some of the traditional wooden houses of the area are painted black, and we tried to replicate that effect,” architect Francisco Kocourek told Dezeen.
All three houses have pine frames and wooden walls, and only the roofing is metal. “We used to live and work in Norway where building entirely with wood is quite common,” explained Kocourek.
The rectangular houses are joined to one another, but are staggered to frame outdoor spaces at the front and rear.
Intersecting angled roofs disguise the boundaries between the different dwellings and create sloping ceilings in some of the rooms.
Entrances are located beneath recessed porches, which give each house a partially sheltered driveway.
More cypress wood can be found inside the houses, where it is used for flooring, skirting boards, doors and window frames.
Ground-floor living rooms and kitchens face each other across small, partially covered patios that are walled on three sides and open out to the gardens.
Upstairs, bedrooms and bathroom sit beneath the slanted ceilings, which are covered with chunky chipboard.
Located in a neighbourhood sparsely populated with detached houses, the units were built according to new planning regulations instated to encourage row houses.
Other projects clad in blackened wood that we’ve featured include a pointy gallery and studio in Japan and a sauna that can be towed like a sled.
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The information below is from the architects:
CLF Houses
The project is located on a plot along a low density residential street in the neighborhood of “El Once”, approximately 400 meters off the principal boulevard of Villa La Angostura. In spite of its apparent centric location, there is a predominance of small isolated and unaligned single family houses, empty “urban” plots and large private properties. In addition to these characteristics you will find the compacted rubble of the street, the absence of sidewalks, urban furniture and light points and the great profusion of trees give the area an unstructured and open character. A recent change in the regulations was made to modify this situation. The goal is to achieve a higher density in the area, without intention of creating an urban street section, by encouraging the construction of new row houses. This change comes with a very strict set of rules regarding the choice of materials, the use of colors in the facade and the angles of the roof.
Isometric diagram
The assignment was to design and build three units of row houses, each one of two floors. The program consists of a living room, dining room, kitchen, toilet, and laundry room on the ground floor and two bedrooms and a complete bathroom on the upper floor. A patio is incorporated in each of the units to enrich the visual connections and to open up the ground floor. It also allows a solution for the heights in the project to satisfy both the program and the regulations. The decision is also taken to step the units linearly freeing one of the sides of the patio. These operations guarantee a greater and more homogeneous natural lighting of the units and allow the visual impact of the project and its immediate environment to be minimized. Indirectly a greater privacy in the garden expansions is achieved, and the visuals from the living rooms are controlled. Volumetrically the project is articulated to be understood as one unit. The inclined planes of the roofs link the units together and the walls are understood as a result.
Ground floor plan – click above for larger image
One of the challenges presented was to build the whole project entirely of wood, including the structure and all enclosures and finishes. Despite the profusion of wood as a material in the south of Argentina, the lack of specialized knowledge and of a specialized industry narrow its uses to isolated structural elements and interior and exterior finishes, often presenting pathologies caused by their poor implementation. An integral system used in Norway based on the indications and experience of the “Norges Byggforskningsinstitutt” (Research Institute of the Construction of Norway) was chosen for the project. The system was adapted to the climatic (higher temperatures, more intense rain, less accumulation of snow), the physical (need for calculating seismic proof structures, different types and quality of wood) and human (unskilled labor, need to assemble a workshop under construction) reality of Argentina.
First floor plan – click above for larger image
The system is based on a structure entirely made of wood which extends to its wooden finished facade. Between the layers a contiguous, controlled air chamber the constant ventilation of the wood is guaranteed, keeping it from rotting, prolonging exponentially the life of the project and the materials. The system also ensures a continuous and substantial layer of insulation, avoiding any cold bridges and providing high interior comfort and energy saving. The windows are solved with double glazing. The heating in the project is solved with a combination of a radiant floor and a strategically located, high-performance salamander. The material palette and colors are reduced to a minimum of black, white, wood and metal. The facade is made of cypress painted black and the separation of the planks is based on the module of the metal plate covering the roof. All interior walls are white, the floors are made in black granite on the ground floor and parquet made of cypress on the upper floor. All the rest of the woodwork is made in natural cypress.
Cross section – click above for larger image
The objective was to analyze and understand the potential of this type of program and the different typologies regarding their placement and appropriation of the land and the resolution of the spatial relationship established between the different units. The approach to the materialization of the project from the details and from the adaptation of a constructive system borrowed from a different background was a unique consequence of the desire to use local materials. For this the application of the system on the site had to be carefully considered in order to be able to transcend the abstraction of our drawn intentions.
Type: Row houses
Architecture: Estudio BaBO
Team: Francisco Kocourek, Francesc Planas Penadés, Marit Haugen Stabell
Collaborators: Marcos Buceta
Construction: Arq. Francisco P. Kocourek
Structure: Ing. Julio C. Pacini
Location: Villa la Angostura, Neuquén, Argentina
Plot Area: 1040 m2
Built Area: 310 m2
Project Year: 2009
Construction Year: Jan 2010 – May 2011
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