Sumit Singhal Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
Multi-Family Housing in Buenos Aires, Argentina by BAK Arquitectos
May 10th, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: BAK Arquitectos
Site
This is a building in the neighborhood of Boedo, in a typical batch of 8.66m which has the special fund that s is adjacent to an urban courtyard with plenty of trees, where there is a football school and a small square. The view on this green match the best direction: north. This neighborhood of CABA, like many others, is changing its appearance as a result of the strong demand for multifamily housing produced in recent years. Without us even lose neighborhood characteristics, begins to suffer and enjoy the inevitable changes brought about any proposal for densification of a city.
Project Architect: Maria Victoria Besonias, Luciano Kruk.
Structural analysis: Luciano Kruk Architect
Contributor: Architect Leandro Pomies
Land area: 277.40 m2
Constructed area: 1,419 m2
Year built: 2009
Construction Company: Building FK
Photos: Gustavo Sosa Pinilla
Image Courtesy Gustavo Sosa Pinilla
The proposal
So we feel that, pending the urban transformasiones, which we understand will take place, the building should be a piece devoid of adjectives, neutral enough to live with what today is and what can go with in the future, a formal will concentrated in its constructive expression and its production process.
In response to these issues we found appropriate to propose a facade whose precentara edifisio asentos or joints and, if possible, be resolved with a single material. We also proposed to continue experimenting with the exposed concrete as we have been doing in our latest works and we evaluate the aesthetic system could solve propose constructive, with the necessary adaptations, both the subject of a key material easy to assimilate to different environments, such as shortening of construction time, low cost and future maintenance very limited by the location (south of the city) and therefore also bounded by the purchasing power of potential buyers.
Image Courtesy Gustavo Sosa Pinilla
The adaptation consisted primarily used to solve the concrete facades, the vertical core and a series of internal baffles which serve the dual function of being room dividers and resistant structure. For the two medians seemed logical to follow traditional thinking of a solution of concrete columns hidden double drywall as thus more effectively resolved thermal insulation enclosing environments.
We wanted also, as in the Concrete House, dealing with facades like a bellows between public and private sectors, with a series of vertical partitions that vary in position from floor to floor and allow to solve the openings in each room the full width and headroom. The views of the interior of the units facing the street are protected by these elements and overlooking the green space we have perceived as the user moves within the department frames the ever-changing landscape.
Image Courtesy Gustavo Sosa Pinilla
Regarding decisions on the ground floor, we decided to leave it free of duties, in order to offer the public space, air, light and views to rear garden, and that otherwise would not have housing units damaged by their contact with the public dimension .
Finally we decided that each dwelling unit should have the greatest possible flexibility of use and also endow a generous expansion while protected by the walls that organize the facades.
The functional organization
It is an open floor building with 5 floors of four units type studio apartments each and sixth where it develops a terrace and environments commonly used, plus a one bedroom dwelling unit. For the bearing with city views and natural lighting is accessed, the plant type, mirrored four units: two forward, which mate for the bathrooms and kitchen, and two facing the back in the same situation. The exposed concrete walls that define those areas of service are, as stated above, a structural role and also define those environments “bellows” that give more intimate sound to the main spaces of each dwelling unit. The creation of two small courtyards in the center of the plant reflects the purpose of providing all cross ventilation units and additional lighting in the deepest area of the plant.
Image Courtesy Gustavo Sosa Pinilla
The constructive solution
The structural system that meets the standard floor for support in the center of it, required a transitional space to have an open floor with support only in the walls. The same was resolved by beams that are the burdens of central partition system of the plant type and move to the axes mediators. The beam system is closed up and down with stones, which also allow the diversion of the amounts of the facilities to the edges without requiring a ceiling assembly to enter another material.
The dividing walls were plastered and painted with white latex on the inside and finished with a plaster plastic on the outside. The floors are concrete screed cloths divided by plates of aluminum. The meeting between walls and the floor was resolved with a recessed aluminum profile way socket. The openings are of dark bronze anodized aluminum. The heating and cooling equipment is determined by individual split.
Image Courtesy Gustavo Sosa Pinilla
Sea blue Boedo
It was very interesting as an experience for our studio work from an aesthetic system constructive born closely related to the environment and the program that originates: summer houses in a maritime forest, and needs to be revised in response to a subject and environment so different. We assumed the challenge of the language we developed in the houses could not withstand the passage of scale, program changes and their location in the urban fabric. The result confirms that a system of strategies and projects addressing aesthetic constructive solution posed a priori as a body of ideas, does not limit the possibilities of solving the various problems that may arise, if experimentation with each new assignment known to pass through the sieve having one’s circumstances.
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