Urban Style Pampa in Buenos Aires, Argentina by F2M Arquitectos

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Urban Style Pampa is located in Villa Urquiza, at the corner of La Pampa and Mariano Acha streets and a few meters away from the new linear park of the “Donado-Holmberg” district.

This nine unit building offers two different typologies (one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments) organized in triplex, which due to their distribution, their spatiality and a series of singular details, refer to the idea of “little urban houses”.

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• Architects: F2M Arquitectos
• Project: Urban Style Pampa
• Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Photography: Manuel Mosquera
• Lead Architects: Hernán Feldmann & Nestor Feldmann
• Engineering: José Zaldua
• Built Area: 950 sqm
• Project Year: 2016

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For the design of the units, a reinterpretation of the typical residences of the neighborhood was made. This residences usually have one or two levels, and in most cases, a private patio or a small garden.

Part of the challenge consisted of introducing these open spaces, normally located on the ground floor, but vertically into the apartments, preserving their conditions and virtues.

To that end, a “volumetric interaction system” between the typologies was introduced, in addition to a withdrawal from the municipal line, optimizing the use of the buildable area for the interior design of the apartments and generating a series of open spaces such as balconies, patios and terraces.
These exterior spaces which are incorporated into the units on their different levels also provide them luminosity and link them to the outside in the same way that it happens with the typical homes.

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

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Likewise, due to their dimensions, these spaces provide new environments for the outdoor use, and at the same time, allow cross ventilation inside the unit.

This “volumetric game” also provides the apartments certain characteristics that are attributed to single-family homes, such as interior double heights and subtle level differences situations. In addition, the incorporation of concrete stairs with a strong plastic personality emphasizes the idea of travelling the space.

Regarding the façade design, the “heavy” ‘concrete boxes’ of the bedrooms contrast with the lightness and permeability of the wide glazed panels of double heights, and they are emphasized by the use of black monolayer coating, appearing to rest over the “wooden frames” that delimit the balconies.

The interiors are design as wide and neutral spaces, where the white color of the walls, which maximizes the luminosity, contrasts with the wooden floor, the black metal railing and the concrete of the stairs and the floating volumes of the bedrooms.

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © Manuel Mosquera

Image Courtesy © F2M Arquitectos

Image Courtesy © F2M Arquitectos

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Image Courtesy © F2M Arquitectos

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Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires

Categories: House, Residential

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