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Driza Temple

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Mar del Plata, Argentina

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Driza Temple

Mar del Plata, Argentina

Firm

Moirë Architects

Type

Residential › Apartment Multi Unit Housing

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2026

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

Transition Between Scales

Driza Temple explores a recurring condition within contemporary medium-density housing: how to build city while preserving the domestic scale of everyday living.

The project operates simultaneously across two dimensions. Toward the urban realm, the building envelope redefines the architectural scale through an aluminum screening system that unifies the reading of the volume and establishes a contemporary presence within the urban fabric. The façade moves beyond its role as a mere boundary to become a transitional layer between building and city.

A second layer, closer to everyday experience, reintroduces a domestic scale associated with the traditional houses of Mar del Plata. The stacked terraces are not conceived as residual balconies or ornamental extensions; rather, their proportions enable genuine inhabitation, incorporating barbecue areas and spaces for permanence that function as elevated courtyards. This strategy transfers qualities traditionally associated with the house — appropriation, outdoor living, and material intimacy — into a collective housing typology.

The Plaza

The ground floor is conceived as an extension of the public realm. A generous open void organizes access while establishing a plaza-like condition capable of extending collective activities toward the city.

The communal gathering space directly engages this open condition and operates independently from the residential floors above, enabling multiple forms of appropriation while strengthening the relationship between architecture and collective life.

All parking is resolved below grade, freeing the ground plane to prioritize pedestrian experience, visual openness, and spatial continuity.

Materiality

Materiality operates as both an atmospheric device and an instrument of identity.

Exposed concrete, exposed brick, and natural wood compose a material palette that seeks equilibrium between contemporary precision and local tradition. Brick establishes a dialogue with Mar del Plata’s architectural memory; concrete contributes permanence and tectonic character; wood introduces a tactile dimension that reinforces warmth and interior experience.

Vegetation is integrated transversally throughout the project, incorporating nature as an essential component of inhabitation rather than a supplementary element.

Residential Units

Each floor accommodates two residential units organized around their own vertical voids. Rather than relying on a conventional corridor logic, the apartments establish spatial relationships oriented toward their own elevated courtyards.

The units do not address residual exterior spaces; instead, they construct their own domestic horizon. Architecture becomes a framework for everyday life, where light, vegetation, materiality, and void are articulated to produce a living experience closer to that of a house than to a conventional collective housing typology.

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