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Architects: Micaela Racca
- Area: 35 m²
- Year: 2021
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Photographs:Javier Agustín Rojas
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Manufacturers: Monolitic
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Text description provided by the architects. The project arises from the need to renovate a late 19th-century 35sqm apartment located in Almagro, Buenos Aires.
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The layout was originally fragmented into three small rooms with poor access to sunlight and interrupted airflow. Hence, in order to create an open and luminous space, the non-load-bearing walls were demolished and the hidden vault ceiling was revealed and restored. In the center of the space, a seamless volume compacts the program allowing circulation around and providing a particular response to each side. Towards the living area, it opens up as an integrated kitchen while on the flip side it contains the bed and the bathroom.
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The new volume was constructed with a textured material palette: terrazzo, marble, and beech wood distilled of any ornamentation to attain a simple and clean outlook. The external walls and windows, the ceiling, and the limestone-tiled floor were unified monochromatically all white.
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The original and the new converse with each other but never interpose, allowing both components to be appreciated individually yet cohesively.
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