Focus sur cette excellente série photographique intitulée « 40 Weeks and a Mirror » par la photographe Sophie Starzenski installée à Buenos Aires. Une évolution de ces 9 mois de grossesses menant à la naissance, documentée par ses autoportraits – mois après mois. Plus d’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.
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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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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.
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Le Grand Splendid Theater de Buenos Aires en Argentine propose dorénavant de disposer d’une librairie de toute beauté. Reprenant le vieux théâtre en le remettant à neuf, cette nouvelle organisation est très réussie, et est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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Argentine architects Estudio BaBO have stacked one brick box upon another to create this house next to a golf course in Buenos Aires.
Brick walls with square openings project out from the building at ground floor level, partially screening outdoor areas.
Bedrooms and bathrooms occupy an L-shaped floor-plate on the first floor, enabling ground floor living areas to be double-height.
The clay brick used is sourced from nearby town Chacabuco.
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The following is from the architects:
MYP House
The project consists of a single family suburban house placed within a corner plot in a traditional Country Club in the Pilar area, Buenos Aires, Argentina. With a surface area of 1100m², the site forms part of a new extension of the Club, resulting in an almost inexistent urban context, deprived of both neighboring houses and grown vegetation.
The only significant influence surrounding the plot is the adjacent par three golf course. The plot is completely flat and there is no physical limit between the golf course and its northeastern border, resulting in a magnificent view which also coincides with the best sun orientation.
The internal regulation of the Country Club, including a strict limitation to the buildable area and its limits regarding the neighboring buildings, generates a very large urban sprawl with lots of space between houses.
This results in large green open spaces, enabling you to connect with the natural surroundings, a characteristic not common in other suburban developments such as this one. On the other hand; these same characteristics, combined with the client’s desire to use the maximum area allowed, often result in a very compact rectangular volume, sometimes dull and devoid of expression.
This is the main reason why most of the houses in this neighborhood tend to concentrate on the outer spaces (so common in this type of climate) by using lightweight structures attached to the main volume, thus compromising their own formal logic.
These strong factors, existent in most of the houses within this area, are taken as the principal ideas for our project. We choose to exteriorize the volume, instead of hiding it, exploiting all of its possibilities. We first, expose it, and then apply different articulation mechanisms to create a variation of spatial relations between the different factors present in the projects program.
We slice the volume horizontally dividing the daily functions from the private ones. Then we cut, rotate and translate the lower walls so as to gain contact with the exterior at ground level, without giving away the required privacy.
One of these articulations creates an entrance courtyard towards the western corner. Its perimeter walls provide privacy, protect the interiors from the harsh western sun, and extend inwards generating a programmatic and symbolic promenade.
The other articulations protect the main and exterior areas from the surrounding street and provide room for an outer kitchen and a service patio for the basement.
The program for this house is that of any other of its type, it is the treatment of the limits between each space which adds complexity to the final plan. It was established from the first moment the importance to make a separation between day and night activities.
The ground floor plan is dedicated to daytime activities. Its plan is open so as to connect with its exterior surroundings, at the same time a conscious effort is made to conserve the privacy of its inhabitants and also retain the buildings domestic scale. There is a fluid connection between its spatial units, the kitchen and the guest toilet (being the only closable rooms).
An open staircase dividing the living and dining room, has a balustrade made up of thin metal bars which seemingly open up as the observer moves around its lower space; a piece of furniture specifically placed at a change of floor level also allows for a one-way visual connection to be made between the two spaces. These are some of the strategies implemented to induce a playful separation between spaces.
The outdoor terrace is integrated as a special unit within itself, with the same length, width and double height of the living area, this important feature becomes the most utilized space in the house. Large retractable glass doors separating this area from the living room allow for the two spaces to be unified and promote use throughout most of the year.
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The outward projection of the lower brick walls, together with its rectangular openings, guarantees privacy while generating ambiguous limits. This insinuates a fluid succession between interior and exterior.
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Apart from the visual connection between the linear hallway and the living area (in double height) the first floor plan is formed by a simple succession of bedrooms and bathrooms.
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All of the rooms extend themselves to the exterior through big glass openings, each room towards a different site. It is intended to individualize the bedrooms by providing them with a different scene and light quality. This also generates the increase of mass in all of the upper floor facades, giving the house its monolithic character.
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Natural light has been essential in this project. The ground floor plan has been designed so as to avoid direct sunlight. The indirect light provides the rooms with a very particular quality, uniform and constant throughout the day. Together with the double height ceilings and cross ventilation the necessity of using a mechanical cooling system can be avoided.
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With regards to the materiality of the project, the decision was made to repeat the use of the Chacabuco brick, seen in the club house and its surrounding buildings, to create a dialogue between the project and its environment.
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The module of the brick is present in the project both in the general proportions of the top volume and as the direct articulator of the relationship between mass and void. On the main level, clear granite is chosen for both interior and exterior floors and a plaster finishing is used on the interior walls throughout the house. Wood is present in the two leveled ceilings of the gallery. All windows are in an anodized black, a colour shared with the exterior wall surrounding the kitchen.
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The project aims to represent a synthesis of its contextual conditions. On the one hand, the already limited constraints of an isolated single family house with its requirements, such as connections, privacy and security in this non-permeable area. And on the other hand, the acceptance of the existing constructive pressures as an enabling and legitimizing design strategy.
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Type / Single family suburban house
Architecture / Estudio BaBO
Team / Francisco Kocourek, Francesc Planas Penadés, Marit Haugen Stabell
Collaborators / Marcos Buceta, Eva Aagard
Construction / DAC. S.A.
Structure / Eduardo Diner Civil Engineer
Location / Pilar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Plot Area / 1100m2
Built Area / 330m2
Project Year / 2008
Construction Year / 07/2008 – 01/2010
Photographs / Daniela Mac Aden, Federico Kulekdjian
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Pogo est un studio artistique argentin talentueux et qui a décidé de faire une série de posters afin de mettre en avant des citations qui leur tiennent à coeur. Autour de citations en anglais connues à travers le monde, ce travail typographique permet de souligner toutes les qualités de ce studio.
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Très bon concept sur cette série “Back to the Future” par la jeune photographe Irina Werning basée à Buenos Aires. Un retour en enfance avec ces clichés et ces mise en scènes sur les instants et décors passés. De nombreux exemples sont à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
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Argetinian studio Adamo-Faiden have installed a fabric tensile structure across the roof of this renovated apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Called Núñez House, a tent-like structure between the walls at the top of the building creates a shaded covering over the terrace and swimming pool.
A light airy social area has been created at the top of the house, where the kitchen, living and dining rooms all flow out to the terrace, separated from it by glazed walls.
The rest of the apartment has been completely renovated, with the bedrooms spread over one floor and a rooftop swimming pool made from an old water tank.
Photographs are by Cristobal Palma.
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Here’s some more information from the architects:
Núñez House.
The realized work for the Núñez family consisted of the transformation of an old apartment into a contemporary urban home.
The project resumes four punctual operations that try to set a relation between the existent organization and the new function.
The first one is the inversion of the separate uses of the two floors of the house.
With the addition of a bathroom and a closet in place of the former living room, the goal of placing all bedrooms on first floor is achieved.
Which, in turn, liberates the upper floor and its terrace for a functional common space for the whole family.
The second intervention consists of occupation of half of the terrace with a light construction, which integrates the space with the kitchen, dining area, and living room.
The rooftop of this space is used to create an extension that leads to the third operation: convertion of the water tank into an open-air swimming pool.
Finally, a shadow device incorporates to the project the irregularity of the walls from neighboring buildings, trapping a great volume of air and creating an specific atmosphere for the new house.
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Argentinian architects Adamo-Faiden have completed a club house in the middle of a lake near Buenos Aires.
Containing a gym, spa and bar, the pill-shaped structure is connected to the shore by a semi-circular walkway.
The mosaic-clad club house serves a gated community called La Cándida, where the architects have already built a community centre. See our previous story.
Photographs are by Cristobal Palma.
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Here’s some more information from the architects:
La Cándida is a gated community built at the border of a route that links Buenos Aires to the seaside resorts of the Atlantic coast.
The property is axially aligned with an artificial lake, a semicircular portion of land at its extreme west became the area of intervention.
Confronting these conditions the project proposes two simultaneous actions: the augmentation of the lake and the construction of a pavilion isolated in its interior.
The two actions intend to invert the inertia of each element in order to become fused with the emergence of an experience specific to this new scenery.
Alongside the programs that configure the building – gym, bar and spa – the club house has an integrating vocation that aspires to dissolve the limits of its prints, inviting each individual to increase their relationships where it seems impossible to do so.
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Un très bel univers graphique sur cet habillage TV pour la chaîne Fox Retro, autour du thème d’un flipper au style “retro-futuriste”. Un travail du nouveau studio Plenty basé à Buenos Aires, avec une direction artistique de Mariano Farias et Javier Pelayo. En vidéo dans la suite.
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