Solid Boxes House / Paralelo Colectivo

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La Plata, Argentina
  • Architects: Paralelo Colectivo
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1615 ft²
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2019
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Luis Barandiarán
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  ACINDAR, Aluar, Dimexo, Ternium
  • Lead Architects: Rodrigo Ballina Benites, Valentín Ayala, Luciano Del Valle
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Solid Boxes House / Paralelo Colectivo - Exterior Photography, Brick, Windows, Facade
© Luis Barandiarán

Text description provided by the architects. This is a house located on the outskirts of the historic center of the city of La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A growing periphery, with a high level of disorder, a context of chaos where some closed urbanization schemes have been flourishing, creating a complicated relationship with its mother environment. The assignment consisted of the construction of a two-bedroom single-family house, where different family conformations of four people can develop their lives.

Solid Boxes House / Paralelo Colectivo - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Countertop
© Luis Barandiarán
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Solid Boxes House / Paralelo Colectivo - Interior Photography, Kitchen, Countertop
© Luis Barandiarán

One of the advantages that gave us the possibility of working in this contradictory urban context, was the possibility of having three free faces and withdrawals from both the municipal line and the median axis, which created a friendly atmosphere. At the same time, this first commission was followed by two more, which is why a path of experimentation was opened around the peri-urban housing of relatively free perimeter, working in three simultaneous cases within the same gated community, the series of houses mitre 1, mitre 2 and mitre 3, were taking similar programs, with different parties that were molded from the understanding of the conditions of the environment, orientation and scale.

Solid Boxes House / Paralelo Colectivo - Exterior Photography, Windows, Brick, Facade
© Luis Barandiarán
Solid Boxes House / Paralelo Colectivo - Interior Photography, Brick
© Luis Barandiarán
Solid Boxes House / Paralelo Colectivo - Exterior Photography
© Luis Barandiarán

We thought of an archetypal architectural morphological element, which refers to the historical form of the home. From it, to retrace a path of material and volumetric experimentation that generates living spaces.

Solid Boxes House / Paralelo Colectivo - Exterior Photography, Brick, Facade
© Luis Barandiarán
Solid Boxes House / Paralelo Colectivo - Interior Photography, Windows, Brick, Facade
© Luis Barandiarán

In the case of Solid Boxes - Mitre 1, this experimentation was generated from the creation of two solid boxes of common brick, which in their overlapping resolve, access, courtyards, and orientations. There was an experimentation of different dispositions and obstacles that the material allowed us, to give the set singularity.

Solid Boxes House / Paralelo Colectivo - Exterior Photography, Windows, Facade
© Luis Barandiarán

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Cite: "Solid Boxes House / Paralelo Colectivo" [Casa cajas macizas / Paralelo Colectivo] 26 Aug 2022. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/987776/solid-boxes-house-paralelo-colectivo> ISSN 0719-8884

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