Add To Collection

Two Houses Conde

Two Houses Conde

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Add To Collection

Other Projects by Hitzig Militello arquitectos

Add To Collection

Williamsburg Outside Restaurant

Add To Collection

Two Houses Conde

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Firm

Hitzig Militello arquitectos

Type

Residential › Private House Multi Unit Housing

YEAR

2012

BUDGET

$100K - 500K

Location: Conde 428, Buenos Aires city, Argentina.

Proyect, documentation &Construction Maganement:
HM.Arquitectos _ Fernando Hitzig & Leonardo G. Militello

Collaborators:
Rubén Ruiz, Virginia Bottan

Structure Advisor:
Carlos Gandini

Photography:
Federico Kulekdjian

Total Covered Surface: 300 m2
Total Uncovered Surface: 182 m2

Connections
From the beginning this project had to respond to two different voices, or two clients.
Both required the same amount of square meters for their future homes.
It is perhaps the greatest achievement of this project, having understood how to complete the
entire buildable volume equally for both owners, and without losing the ability to have access to
almost all of the terrain.
The strategy chosen was to cross-distribute the meters that corresponded to each owner, so that
both units rotate through the central axis of the patio in a centrifugal manner.
To achieve the crossed connection of the two properties without wasting useful meters, we took
the decision to "externalize" the stairs, like sleeve-bridges connecting both units.

Volumes
The silhouette of the building is a result of the completion of the maximum buildable volume that
the code of the city of Buenos Aires allows.
One strategy for taking advantage of all the meters was maintaining two areas of the property
formerly located, clearly manifested through its bricks vaults.
The new building also recalls the old spatial organization positioning itself on the old tracks of
the previous house patios, adapting the old layout of the ground floor to the two new homes.
Property A with ground floor and two levels has 4 rooms and property of equal height B has 5
rooms. Both properties are staggered so that terraces appear both in the front and in the back.

Operations
This strategy is to identify the wall as a foreign element of the structure. This operation is
reflected in both facades, motivating the intention of conceiving a solid facade whose operations
of openings is the subtraction, exposing the structure behind.
These operations were completed by a system of fences and balconies whose folds and textures
seek to manifest the light and a verticality throughout the development of both facades,
achieving a balance of empty strips and large solid volume.
The inner patio that organizes circulations, has a traditional opening treatment, making the
multidirectional stairs, the stars of this central space.
The greatest achievement of this project was to adapt under the tracks of the old building, two
houses whose volumetric ambition exceeded the capacity of the land and with a simple strategy
of circulatory connections, we achieved to occupy the whole site for both two houses.

Product Spec Sheet

Were your products used?

Join as a manufacturer to add your products.

Collaborating Firms

Was your firm involved? Add it now.

Team

Leonardo Guido Militello

Architects

Were you involved? Add yourself.

Articles

Plataforma de arquitectura

Summa

Dezeen

Design Boom

arqa

Bauntez

Two Houses Conde

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Other Projects by Hitzig Militello arquitectos

Aire Libre

Juan Valdez

Movistar Arena

Fehgra

Cien

Antiche Devoto

Hausscape

Benedetta

7167 Burger

Araoz Building

Manduca Market

Williamsburg Outside Restaurant

Fresco

Narda Comedor Diario

Uala II Office

Malita

Fogón

ElYaki

El Clásico de Quilmes

The nim bar

Two Houses Conde

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Product Spec Sheet

Collaborating Firms

Team

Articles

Keep Exploring Architizer by Creating a Free Account or Logging in.

Two Houses Conde

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Other Projects by Hitzig Militello arquitectos

Aire Libre

Juan Valdez

Movistar Arena

Fehgra

Cien

Antiche Devoto

Hausscape

Benedetta

7167 Burger

Araoz Building

Manduca Market

Williamsburg Outside Restaurant

Fresco

Narda Comedor Diario

Uala II Office

Malita

Fogón

ElYaki

El Clásico de Quilmes

The nim bar

Two Houses Conde

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Product Spec Sheet

Collaborating Firms

Team

Articles