The “air and light courtyard” is an element conceived by the first Buenos Aires Building Code (1944) to guarantee minimum natural ventilation and lighting for a building's interior spaces. Although its standardization and the characteristics that define its form have evolved over time—modifying the building envelopes that result in various characteristic configurations—its dimensions have always been determined by a series of factors common to each building site, such as surface area, zoning, location within the city block, and the width of the street on which it is situated. It is from the combination of these abstract values that the variation of volumes, shapes, sizes, angles, and setbacks that occupy the city—and these pages—emerges.
Author: Javier Agustín Rojas
Editors: Patricio Binaghi, Paula Lombardi
Editorial Design: Setanta Design
Translator: Santiago Laclau
Texts: Fernando Diez, Federico Curutchet
Dimensions: 20x30 cm
Pages: 110
Weight: 450 g
