Villa Elisa Duplex / Estudio Focaccia Prieto

Text statement provided by the architects. The task is based connected an concern investigation successful a portion of onshore located astatine a speedy entree constituent to the Buenos Aires - La Plata highway, successful beforehand of the Roca railway tracks. The maximum show of the batch allowed by the existent ordinance was sought, which allowed the incorporation of 3 houses and a store.

In an elongated lot, successful a corner, trapezoidal successful shape, 3 identical units were projected, arsenic paired volumes, which, though they person backstage patios, services and autarkic accesses, marque up a continuous municipality complex. The irregularity of the batch was utilized to offset the volumes, giving movement, independency and privateness to each unit.

These displacements springiness portion of the batch to the nationalist space, reinforcing the transportation of the analyzable with the municipality space. In addition, they let the dimensions of the backstage patios of the 3 units to beryllium matched. In turn, they respond to the regulations successful unit successful the area, which stipulates that successful country lots, frontage withdrawals tin screen astatine slightest 50% of the magnitude of municipal lines.

The measurement is divided into 2 modules of antithetic heights and materials, 1 much unsighted (living rooms and bedrooms) covered successful unsighted corrugated expanse metallic and different much permeable (garage and terraces), with a mobile facade of microperforated expanse metal, which according to its usage fell oregon show patios and terraces. This generates an alternation betwixt afloat and empty.

The extortion presents a acceptable of scissors-shaped offsets, generating antithetic situations connected the façades: successful front, a dynamic image, with antithetic heights, and successful the rear, a much continuous image. It was decided to find the surviving room, room and eating country connected the archetypal level, with a terrace successful beforehand to instrumentality vantage of the views towards the Barrio Jardin vicinity and the highway, some of which person dense vegetation. Each portion is accessed done metallic gates, vehicularly to a semi-covered store and pedestrianly to a distributor hallway with a staircase covered successful earthy wood that gives entree to the societal precocious floor.

The crushed level contains the bedrooms, a smaller one, facing the street, which tin optionally beryllium integrated into the maestro bedroom, constituting an en-suite dressing room, oregon study/work area, and a maestro chamber that opens onto the backmost patio, with beingness of vegetation successful each its hold (gramilla, lagerstroemia, jasmine). When removing the vehicle, the store abstraction constitutes a usage country arsenic a barbecue area, portion the afloat opening of the entranceway gates generates a connecting abstraction betwixt the greenish of the thoroughfare and the greenish of the interior patio.

The societal program is built astir the semi-covered terrace, and is conceived arsenic a azygous and continuous space, with antithetic spatial situations generated by the slopes of the extortion that ranges from conscionable implicit 2 meters astatine its lowest point, reaching 4 meters precocious successful the surviving country (allowing the imaginable aboriginal incorporation of a tiny airy mezzanine).