Once Building / Adamo-Faiden

Once Building / Adamo-Faiden

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Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Architects: Adamo Faiden: Adamo-Faiden
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  940
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2011
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Cristóbal Palma

Text description provided by the architects. The building is situated in Núñez, a neighborhood whose development brings a balanced densification to the city of Buenos Aires. Its perifheral condition and efficient connectivity with the rest of the city turns it today into a desirable alternative for residential and tertiary programmes.

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The building incorporates to its own organization this notion of mixed city through the construction of six spaces, which are programmatically undetermined but spatially specific, understanding that a path to the intensification of the inhabitating opens from this apparent contradiction.

Once Building / Adamo-Faiden - Windows
© Cristóbal Palma

The expansion of the internal free height to 3.15m. allows the existence of spaces with higher depth without losing the optimal comfort conditions that guarantee its habitability. Achieving a depth and compact building that minimizes the energy exchange between the interior and the environment.

Once Building / Adamo-Faiden - Windows, Cityscape
© Cristóbal Palma

The enclosure is materialized with a vegetable mattress that protects the three facades exposed to the sun, while incorporating a space for leisure where nature finds its desired protagonism. The microperforated awnings placed in both facades return towards the city a veiled picture of the vegetation they enclose, echoing the ambiguity the building is intended to set up.

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You can check more photographs of this house in Cristobal Palma’s website and follow Cristobal on twitter @EstudioPalma and Facebook.

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Address:11 de Septiembre de 1888 3260, Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Cite: "Once Building / Adamo-Faiden" 06 Jun 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/241482/once-building-adamo-faiden> ISSN 0719-8884

© Cristóbal Palma

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