Three Houses and a Carob Tree / BALDIO ARQUITECTURA

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Text description provided by the architects. The commission consisted of two "duplex" type homes on a 400 m2 lot in a neighborhood in the suburbs of Cordoba, very close to the city's ring road. FOS FOT MAXIMUM EXPLAIN (fos = Land Occupation Factor) Our position regarding the commission was from the outset to find a way to densify the lot through the incorporation of a third unit. This decision implied an idea of researching ways of making architecture for rent, collaborating to create a more compact city. Córdoba suffers the consequences of the horizontal expansion of the urban sprawl, towards the small mountains (northwest of the city), the “oil stain” that worries so much when thinking about the development of a more sustainable city. This is how we propose to work with 3 units, two of them in triplex and one in two levels that incorporates the first inhabitant of the place, a carob tree of approximately 15 years of age, which without a doubt had to become the protagonist of the house that would welcome