In September of 2021, the Torre Dimion was inaugurated in 490 Boyacá St., in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The design and construction management were in charge of Forcinito Arquitectos studio, and developed by Dimion Real Estate.
The volumetric conformation of this building results from a deep analysis of the environment and the urban regulations that define it. Designed during the transition period from the Urban Planning Code (previous) to the Urban Code (current), the volumetry responds to a typological combination. Located in what was previously the C3II zoning, the lower volume responds to the maximum permitted heights, dissimilar between the two streets that make up the property. At the corner, the tower detaches itself from the basement, forming an independent body that respects the maximum heights of a volume with a free perimeter. In this way, the urban profile in the lower volumes is consolidated without disruption, while the free-standing tower forms a landmark in the neighbourhood, that materializes the corner in a new morphological and symbolic value.
The materiality of the building responds to the geometric premises described. The basement generates an irregularly exposed concrete skin, allowing the necessary openings programmatically, and providing scale to the urban complex. The tower rises crystalline above, highlighting its vertical design. The openings in both cases, escape the traditional responses. The slits in the openwork plates, result in vertical windows according to the programmatic needs of the lower floors in the city. On the upper floors, the glass skin solves the search for lighting and views, but with residential characteristics, adapting a typical office technique into a new typology and re-signifying it.
The intersection of both systems results in an open corner, making the balconies part of the architecture, instead of the typical appendage projections of Buenos Aires neighborhoods. The concrete slab descends to the middle of the pedestrian level, hanging by means of a system of tensioners in the concrete. In this way, it generates and invites access and incorporates it into the general morphology. In this way, the balconies, the access and the windows are the result of the general logic of the building, instead of being its conditioning factors. The top of the building is made up of a larger-scale glazed volume, which frames the covered pool, forming useful amenities all year round, with views of the entire city.
The building has premium units of 4 and 5 rooms, with details and atypical interior design in the neighborhood. Amenities of different sizes were designed, where the aforementioned covered and heated pool stands out on the last level, a multipurpose room, kids club and gym.
FORCINITO ARQUITECTOS (www.forcinitoarqs.com)
Author: Martin Forcinito
Co-Author: Teodoro Tenenbaum
Construction Management: Mariela Muñoz
Team: Sergio Fernandez; Fernando Brunstein; Malena Villafañe; Gustavo Grassano; Carlos Ramirez Matto; Gabriel Atach
Client: Dimion Real Estate (www.dimion.com.ar)
Photographs: Albano Garcia (http://albanogarcia.com.ar)