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- Architects: Arch. Ignacio Montaldo + Arch. Eugenio Ottolenghi
- Location: Tigre, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- Collaborators Architects: Adrien Girard, Juan Charadia, Lucrecia Brero, Torunn Vaksvik Skarstad, Jerónimo Bailat, Sofia Tomaselli
- Area: 360.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2015
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- Type Of Project: House
- Structural Engineers: German Comas, Fernando Saludas
- Landscape Architecture: Cecilia Rossi de Dominicis
- Client: Private
- Frame Windows: Alucon. Fernando
- Lighting Consultant: Arch. Verónica La Cruz
- Ablution: Estudio Labonia
- Main Contractor: Carlos Rodríguez Palare / Arch Michelle Rodríguez Palare
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The commission is a house for a couple with four grown children.
The plot is located in a countryside neighborhood with access to Route 27 and to the Lujan River, in the town of Tigre in the northern suburbs of Buenos Aires.
The project is intended to be a criticism of the type of detached-house or typical villa, which swarms today’s gated communities. The project seeks to close itself off as much as possible to the street and neighbors, and work from a courtyard, open on the ground floor and more closed and private on the first floor, where the main living space is located – (living room, kitchen, dining room, bedroom and bathroom). On the ground floor there are located two offices and a recreational space that connects to the garden and pool.
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In the patio/atrium three flower-jacarandas have been planted, which provide a significant change of color, and thus feel, to the space with the passing of the seasons.
Section
Section
The house rests on a concrete platform with inverted stiffening beams and is assembled with a mixed structure of reinforced concrete and steel columns that push the momentum of the flexion to its limits with a support system that runs through an prop up that vertically supports of the ends of the beams.
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Diagram
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Plane eucalyptus boards of 3’’ (of various lengths) where used for the formwork to mold the beam partitions, and for the ceiling slabs finished multi-laminated phenolic plastic boards were used.
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