Collective Housing in Jesús María

Collective Housing in Jesús María 

Carranza Vazquez Arquitectos

Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Javier Agustín Rojas

ARCHITECTS
Carranza Vazquez Arquitectos

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Lucas Carranza, Juan Pablo Vazquez

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Germán Sarboraria

CONSTRUCTION EXECUTION
Texonor

MANUFACTURERS
Cg Argentina

PHOTOGRAPHS
Javier Agustín Rojas, Santiago Ruiz

AREA
506 M²

YEAR
2021

LOCATION
Jesus María, Argentina

CATEGORY
Coliving

Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Javier Agustín Rojas

The work is located in Jesús María, a relatively medium-scale city located 50 km from the capital of the province of Córdoba, Argentina. The city is characterized by a low-density fabric where the predominance of a logic of housing occupation by lots hinders the response to the high housing demand in the area.

The project consists of a set of 4 housing units of 130 m2 on a corner lot of 420 m2 with a slope in the north/south direction towards the river that crosses the city.

Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Santiago Ruiz
Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Javier Agustín Rojas

To moderate the impact on the natural soil and preserve the scalar relationship with the surrounding fabric, the project is settled on the lot without modifying the topography, using it as a design resource. This registration of the topography also allows organizing the typologies in half levels, gaining a covered space below ground level.

Each housing unit is organized into 2 programmatic strips, one that groups the services and vertical circulations and another where the common areas and bedrooms are located.

Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Javier Agustín Rojas
Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Javier Agustín Rojas

The half levels are articulated around a covered void incorporating vegetation, natural lighting, and ventilation, allowing for continuity between the interior spaces and the exterior. A series of folding panels on the facade and in the interior void allows for managing these relationships according to the ways of living of the occupants.

In this sense, the typology operates spatially and programmatically between the compartmentalized and the continuous through the panels that allow reconfiguring its interior, and between the unspecific and the specific, de-hierarchizing spaces through their equalization in metrics and interior and exterior relationships.

Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Javier Agustín Rojas
Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Santiago Ruiz

Technologically, the work operates from the simplification of construction processes, through the use of local technologies and the deployment of the minimum necessary resources and their repetition.

The brick walls that divide the typologies and the interior programs are used as load-bearing structures, and the spans between these supports are covered with pure reinforced concrete slabs. The search for the minimum reinforces its expression through exposed brick and polished slabs as the final finish.

Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Javier Agustín Rojas


Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Javier Agustín Rojas
Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Javier Agustín Rojas
Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Javier Agustín Rojas
Collective Housing in Jesús María
© Javier Agustín Rojas


Collective Housing in Jesús María
Ground floor plan
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First floor plan
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Second floor plan
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Site plan


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Elevation
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Interior collage
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Exterior collage