Two Houses Conde

Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian

TWO HOUSES CONDE

Hitzig Militello Arquitectos

CATEGORY
Houses

LOCATION
Buenos Aires, Argentina

COLLABORATION
Rubén Ruiz, Virginia Bottan

PHOTOGRAPHS
Federico Kulekdjian

AREA
182 m²

YEAR
2012

STRUCTURAL CONSULTANT
Carlos Gandini

BUILDER
Estudio hma

CARPENTER
Technal. Aimeltech

Text description provided by architect.

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.

Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian
Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian
Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian

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.

Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian
Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian

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.

Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian
Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian
Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian

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.

Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian
Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian

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.

Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian
Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian

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.


Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian
Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian
Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian
Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian
Two Houses Conde
© Federico Kulekdjian


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Ground Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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First Floor Plan
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Third Floor Plan


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Section BB
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Section CC
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Diagram 1
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Diagram 2


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