2x3 Triplex in URCA

2x3 Triplex in URCA
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2X3 TRIPLEX IN URCA

Choza. Espacio De Arquitectura

MICROCEMENTS
Lilian Suarez

SMITHY
Mariano Vergara

PROGRAM
Conjunto De Viviendas

STRUCTURAL PROJECT
Edgar Morán

COATINGS
Leonardo Coronel

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Centeno Centeno Ingeniería + Choza. Espacio De Arquitectura

MANUFACTURERS
Egger, Johnson Acero, Acindar, Aluar, Bará Cemento, Bukara, Egger, Peirano, Tello Srl, Vasser, Ferrum

LEAD ARCHITECTS
M. Clara Amoedo Fiore, Agustina Calamari

COLLABORATORS
Pilar Flores, Gonzalez Pablo Santos, Josefina Ciocca

BUILDER
Adrián Calderón Construcciones

LANDSCAPING
Hilda Moratello

EQUIPMENT
Conbell

ALUMINUM
Henisa Sa

AREA
3229 Ft²

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Córdoba, Argentina

CATEGORY
Housing

Text description provided by architect.

This project is the result of changes within a family that renews itself, from which the idea of recycling the existing family properties is born.

2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
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The intervention seeks to adapt the existing leisure spaces to new living dynamics and needs.

A dense program on a narrow north-south lot that used to be a soccer field, two paired three-level houses - triplex - are developed both vertically and horizontally, directing the program towards the backyard reformulating the typical model of Argentinian casa de medio patio (half patio house), where the void of the patios is the main articulator of all the interior spaces.

2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez

The two houses are located in a residential neighborhood near the Suquía river in Cordoba, where an existing studio house that adjoins the triplexes accompanies the new blocks and completes the set of buildings in a functional and visual way.

The first level is articulated along three patios and condenses daily leisure activities:

A Living room, kitchen & dining room, and a service spot in the back.

2x3 Triplex in URCA
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2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez

A front access parking patio, an intermediate green patio that serves as a vertical connection for the two high-rise chorizo ​​houses, and a back patio that combines vegetation and resting space.

The first floor is the most private level including two en-suite bedrooms that finish off the north and south facades, cushioned by circulation along the middle patio and a working desk corner that enables the new post-pandemic ways of life.

2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez

The third and last level hosts a morphologically disruptive structure covered by sheet metal that reinforces horizontal discontinuity while vertically unifying the triple-height houses.

This aesthetics contrasts with the brick blocks that dialogue with the adjoining loft up to a second level. One studio and the two triplexes close the complex.

2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez


2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez
2x3 Triplex in URCA
© Andrés Dominguez


2x3 Triplex in URCA
Plan - Ground floor

2x3 Triplex in URCA
Plan - 1st floor

2x3 Triplex in URCA
Plan - Terrace


2x3 Triplex in URCA
Ground floor plan axo
2x3 Triplex in URCA
First floor plan axo
2x3 Triplex in URCA
Roof plan axo