The Think Tank is a conceptual design for a special kind of retreat structure inspired by the Santa Fe Institute (which is one of the most important science research centers in the world) located in Santa Fe New Mexico. Complexity theory is one of the institute’s primary areas of research.
Between the houses and shops of services and catering that founded the Candioti neighborhood, multi housing buildings, bars, restaurants and clothing stores are multiplying, in a transformation of vitality and diversity.
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Our client, a regional supermarket chain charges us the remodeling and expansion of one of its branches located in a neighborhood environment with individual low houses, over a boulevard that runs through virtually the entire city.
The existing part consisted in the sales floor, a small deposit of products and the parking for customers. For the expansion two adjoining properties with land of generous dimensions were incorporated.
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The Lehmann boulevard is named after the founder of the colony Rafaela. It is one of the two foundational axes that intersect each other orthogonally and form the main square of the city that is surrounded by old and leafy tipas (TipuanaTipu). The urban space is ample with low-rise buildings and a landscape with a predominance of jacarandás (Jacaranda Mimoosifolia) and lapachosrosados (Handroanthusimpetiginosus).
For a single-storey suburban existing house, we proposed a refurbishment and addition that includes an extra bedroom, a new bathroom and the growth of the kitchen-dining-living room connected to the backyard through a gallery, accompanied by a beam-gutter projecting to the end of the plot passing over the pool.
Contemporary cities are shaped as the result of the tension between the will of the state, (theoretically) representative of citizens, and the Market. The struggle between these actors has conditioned, for better or worse, the urban image and even more importantly the lives of all inhabitants. This conditional relationship on a macro scale can be read in the micro scale as well, in each of the buildings that make up the urban scene.
Architectural design in Guria restaurant is a contemporary interpretation of old basque homes. This concept, under express request of the owners, is the continuity of a well proved and successful formula developed in the the original Spanish premises.
The project is developed in a plot whose bottom coincides with the perimeter of closure of a private neighborhood and beyond the limit, extends sown fields, allowing having a broader vision of the surrounding landscape and also having more privacy in the rear. Coincidentally, the rear facade is oriented to the north, so the most private part would have the best orientation.
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Architects: Pablo Anzilutti
Project: RA House
Location: El Paso Country Club, Santa Fe, Argentina
Engineers: Eng. Javier Perez / Eng. Ezequiel Rigiardi
Area (m2): 225 m2 covered / partially covered 95 m2