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Frittegotto Studio
Frittegotto Studio
Casilda, Argentina
Project Featured on Dec 16, 2015
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Frittegotto Studio
Casilda, Argentina
Project Featured on Dec 16, 2015
In order to arrive to Casilda we must cross kilometers through the Pampas. An infinite landscape of big skies and a flat horizon restlessly accompany us: crops, posts, wire fences, silos and scattered sheds follow one after another. Then, the horizon comes closer and becomes tangible. To enter a town at the Pampas is almost like to enter a courtyard. In neighborhood of single story houses the Frittegotto Studio appears, both strange and familiar.
The small structure finds many architectural characteristics based on certain specific relationships with the site. One of its sides is positioned parallel to the street; the other is inclined to occupy the available space left by the pre-existing house. The floor is horizontal, but the roof is inclined, echoing the roof of the house. At the same time, this inclination allows for a bigger interior space and a mezzanine, without being perceived as a two storey building from the outside. The garage is a carved out volume under the mezzanine that –together with the perception of the inclined planes- makes the whole volume visually lighter. Between the Studio and the existing house a void is defined at the corner of the block, acting an entry courtyard for the ensemble. Through the total aperture of one of its sides, the Studio visually relates to this courtyard. But the project also finds other -subtler- characteristics from certain abstract relationships with the landscape that saw us come: its metallic materiality, its basic hopper wagon shape, its undeniable similarity with the rural and industrial constructions that populate the plains and –above all- an expressive sensitivity that relies on the results of working with the essential. Sometimes architecture enrich its meaning through synthesis. Like the activities and thoughts that take place in it, the Firttegotto Studio is a reflection on the landscape as well: on the relationships with its immediate landscape and the extended landscape of its culture and its territory.
Diego Arraigada
The small structure finds many architectural characteristics based on certain specific relationships with the site. One of its sides is positioned parallel to the street; the other is inclined to occupy the available space left by the pre-existing house. The floor is horizontal, but the roof is inclined, echoing the roof of the house. At the same time, this inclination allows for a bigger interior space and a mezzanine, without being perceived as a two storey building from the outside. The garage is a carved out volume under the mezzanine that –together with the perception of the inclined planes- makes the whole volume visually lighter. Between the Studio and the existing house a void is defined at the corner of the block, acting an entry courtyard for the ensemble. Through the total aperture of one of its sides, the Studio visually relates to this courtyard. But the project also finds other -subtler- characteristics from certain abstract relationships with the landscape that saw us come: its metallic materiality, its basic hopper wagon shape, its undeniable similarity with the rural and industrial constructions that populate the plains and –above all- an expressive sensitivity that relies on the results of working with the essential. Sometimes architecture enrich its meaning through synthesis. Like the activities and thoughts that take place in it, the Firttegotto Studio is a reflection on the landscape as well: on the relationships with its immediate landscape and the extended landscape of its culture and its territory.
Diego Arraigada
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