SUP Las Heras

Carlos Casares, Argentina

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SUP Las Heras

Carlos Casares, Argentina

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Fábrica de Arquitectura Contemporánea

Type

Residential › Multi Unit Housing

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2022

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

Can a mid-scale building recover the intimacy and warmth of a single-family home while simultaneously reinforcing the collective vitality of the city? This question, central to modern architecture, forms the starting point of SUP Las Heras, a four-storey residential building located in Carlos Casares, a small town in Argentina’s Pampas characterised by its low-rise housing fabric, where multifamily living remains uncommon.

The building aligns itself with the tradition of Latin American cities shaped by incremental, layered growth, balancing domestic life with collective space. The project reflects on how intermediate cities in Argentina’s interior can grow without typological homogenisation, while re-establishing a direct relationship with neighbourhood life.

With a total area of 1,200 square metres ( and just four levels, the building preserves the continuity of the urban block and consolidates a street frontage that responds to the identity of the surrounding neighbourhood.

The corner condition becomes a strategic element of the design. At ground level, a setback opens the corner to the city, creating a publicly accessible space that extends the sidewalk. Above, voids, double-height spaces and exposed reinforced-concrete trays introduce a sense of lightness, while improving views and natural ventilation.

Each dwelling functions as an “elevated house”, organised across split levels that maximise cross-ventilation, natural light and private outdoor extensions. North-facing terraces, equipped with individual barbecues and open views over the town, reinforce a form of urban living that embraces deeply rooted local rituals, such as gathering around an asado or the everyday occupation of outdoor space.

The exposed reinforced-concrete structural system, defined by slabs and cantilevers that form floating trays, lends the building solidity, permanence and an expressive character that departs from constructional neutrality. Here, concrete acts both as structure and language, recalling the Latin American modern tradition in which structure is also form and expression.
In dialogue with this robust framework, floor-to-ceiling anodised aluminium glazing with double glazing ensures visual continuity, environmental comfort and energy efficiency.

Sustainability is conceived as an intrinsic design criterion rather than an add-on. From favourable orientations, cross-ventilation and planted terraces to rainwater harvesting and reuse systems, renewable energy for common areas and a low-water-demand landscape strategy, each decision aims to reduce environmental impact and extend the building’s lifespan. The use of durable, low-maintenance materials further contributes to reduced operating costs and a longer life cycle.

The rooftop terrace, equipped with pergolas, fire pits, water supply and cooking facilities, is conceived as a shared social space that extends communal life beyond the private units.

Overall, SUP Las Heras goes beyond solving a residential brief. It offers a critical reflection on how to inhabit the city at a human scale, proposing a model in which structure, sustainability and community are inseparable dimensions. In a context such as Carlos Casares, where tensions between tradition and urban growth are increasingly evident, the building stands as both precedent and experiment—an architecture capable of imagining new ways of living without relinquishing local identity.

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SUP Las Heras

Carlos Casares, Argentina

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Carlos Casares, Argentina

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