Martos House / Adamo-Faiden

Architects: Adamo-Faiden
Location: José María Moreno 2057, Villa Adelina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Collaborators: Ruth Lastra, Rachael Yu
Year: 2011
Photographs: Cristobal Palma

Structural Engineering: Ing. Carlos Margueirat
Masonry: Gusmán Escurra
Electricity: Juan Pablo Basile
Services: Inocencio Aranda
Blacksmith: Pedro Vargas, Rubén Sacco

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.