The new Criminal Justice Center is located on a site in Rosario that had formerly been occupied by the Clemente Álvarez Emergency Hospital (HECA). The decision to construct such an important civic building in this neighborhood was part of an urban plan to revitalize the zone.
The building is designed as a system of modules articulated by patios, which allow for natural light to permeate the interior spaces. The modular layout makes it possible for the courthouse to respond to the evolution of the judicial system, and the implications that this could have in terms of the future physical requirements.
The building is placed in a typical party wall urban lot, in a block with an open expanse of train tracks in front. From the building you can see this magnificent industrial landscape and behind it, the river and its islands.
The house is located in a neighborhood not yet fully developed on the outskirts of Rosario. The landscape has the rural character of the Pampas, with fields and orchards along with warehouses and criollo brick kilns (named for the vernacular technique of fabricating clay bricks by hand). The design strategy looks for a compact country house, located on the south side of the lot in order to capture sunlight and to open a large garden area. The shape is the result of a volume subjected to cuts and operations of subtraction.
FyF is located in the outskirts of Rosario [the second largest city in Argentina], approximately 300 km north of Buenos Aires. The small house of approximately 200 m2 is built in a new residential development adjacent to a traditional neighborhood. FyF can be described as a spatial and physical attempt to challenge the planar stability and flat homogeneity of the Pampas landscape in a domestic setting. The project was conceived as a monolithic solid, a monochromatic form punctuated only by subtle inflections that establish a complex physical relationship among the different spaces while maintaining a sense of identity and privacy between them.
FyF Residence
Project Type: Single-family house
Location: Rosario, Argentina
Status: Under Construction
Dates: 2004 – 2007
Size: 200 m2 / 2.000 sq.ft.
Client: Florencia and Fernando Garcia
Project Team: Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich, Principals in charge; James Vincent, Hunter Knight, En Jang, Ben Luddy, Assistants
Executive Architect, 1st Phase: Estudio +/ Alejandro Beltramone and Marcelo Ponzelini; 2nd Phase; Dalabona Arquitectos—Monia Dalabona, Principal in Charge
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