Fonrouge Residence

Fonrouge Residence
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Fonrouge Residence

Fabrizio Pugliese

YEAR
2022

LOCATION
Buenos Aires, Argentina

AREA
105 M²

COLLABORATORS
Manuela Mujica, Maxi Guglielmetti

MANUFACTURERS
Destefano, Hande, Todoluces

LEAD ARCHITECT
Fabrizio Pugliese

CATEGORY
Apartments

Viviendas Fonrouge is an expansion and renovation project in a low-density residential neighborhood.

Fonrouge Residence
© Javier Agustin Rojas
Fonrouge Residence
© Javier Agustin Rojas
Fonrouge Residence
© Javier Agustin Rojas

This intervention aims to create an essay on the transformation of the urban landscape, exploring an alternative model to total demolition, preserving certain pre-existing structures, and operating with a contemporary language using traditional construction systems.

Fonrouge Residence
© Javier Agustin Rojas

Neighborhoods and their landscapes are threatened by the systematic demolition proposed by the real estate market.

In resistance to this phenomenon, the built capital, which is part of the collective memory of a place, is revalued,

Fonrouge Residence
© Javier Agustin Rojas
Fonrouge Residence
© Javier Agustin Rojas
Fonrouge Residence
© Javier Agustin Rojas

where there is already a sense of neighborhood belonging and the artisanal capacities of trades are valued, producing new technologies with traditional resources.

“For the new to find its place, we must first be stimulated to see the pre-existing in a new way” Peter Zumthor -Thinking Architecture.

The program consists of two functional units since their construction in the 1950s.

Fonrouge Residence
© Javier Agustin Rojas
Fonrouge Residence
© Javier Agustin Rojas

In this intervention, both units were expanded with a first-floor crowning and a terrace with intermediate patios, and the language of the housing units is derived from the anonymous compositions of the neighborhood landscape.


Fonrouge Residence
© Javier Agustin Rojas


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Planta
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Planta baja
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Planta terraza
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Implantación


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Cortes
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Axonométrica