HORMIGA HOUSE
Estudio PK
ARCHITECTS
Estudio PK
AREA
230 m²
INTERIOR
SUMA interiorismo
PHOTOGRAPHS
Alejandro Peral
COUNTRY
Argentina
LEAD ARCHITECT
Arq. Ignacio Pessagno, Arq. Lilian Kandus
CATEGORY
Houses, Renovation
YEAR
2022
CITY
San Fernando
TEAM
Arq. Ignacio Pessagno, Arq. Lilian Kandus, Arq. Lucila López, Arq. Denise Andreoli, Arq. Belén Luna Crook, Arq. Belén López Astrada, Arq. Milagros Caride, Arq. Vanesa Rolón, Denise Bardelli, Melany D’angelo, Sofía Vier Abinet, Renata Stechina
LANDSCAPING
Grün paisajismo
STRUCTURAL CALCULATION
Ing. José Luis Pisani
Text description provided by architect.
Casa Hormiga is a single-family house located in a neighborhood scale context in San Fernando, Zona Norte, implanted and coexisting with the local regulations.
The main axis of the reform is to preserve the imprint of the existing building and to use a light structure that creates a link between the original house and the new intervention.
The exposed brick facade was left bare so that the original construction can be seen. Above it is the top floor with white sheet metal cladding.
Based on the possibilities and opportunities that the old building offered us, the secondary partitions were eliminated to make the floor plan more dynamic, obtaining more generous spaces and providing more light inside the house.
The duality of what was and what is new can be seen in the front part of the house. The structure of sliding folding sheet metal shutters gives dynamism to the facade.