CasaGrande Building
CasaGrande Building
Estudio Planta
CONSTRUCTION
Sureste
RENDERS
Manuel LaSala | DotBox
WALL ART
Luciana Garabello
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
Magnone-Pollio
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Management: Julio Paolino
LANDSCAPING
García Faure / Anguita
MANUFACTURERS
La Base, Luna/Oks, World Leds Go
LEAD ARCHITECTS
Ana Rascovsky & Irene Joselevich Arqs
PROJECT TEAM
Victoria Sabaino, Florencia Rissotti, Martina Silberman, Martina Frobolini, Ines Toscano, Jimena Jalife
YEAR
2020
LOCATION
Faro De José Ignacio, Uruguay
CATEGORY
Hotels, Residential Architecture
CasaGrande is a Condo-Hotel: apartments rented within a hotel administration, for 10 years. Located at the entrance of Jose Ignacio, it is a building that will be iconic, for its implementation and for being the first building of this scale in this peninsula.
CHARACTER
The complex seeks to maintain the beachy and rustic character that defines the town of José Ignacio. The challenge was creating a building within an area that still maintains the scale of an "old fishing village" while generating a 6,000m² hotel.
TETRIS
The building is a three-level cloister with a central courtyard on the first floor. The distribution of the constructed mass was based on a three-dimensional structural grid, articulated to create exciting spatiality and attractive volumetric situations.
The complete configuration of the building and each apartment and its exterior surface results in harmonious outcomes.
CIRCULATION
The central courtyard creates a microclimate sheltered from the wind. The internal circulation of the building is exclusively external within this controlled space.
From the central courtyard, one can access the units without interfering with their views through a system of labyrinthine walkways among the treetops, away from the windows to protect privacy and create an attractive and social promenade.
TYPOLOGIES
The building comprises 56 apartment units with 26 different typologies, assembled on the three-dimensional orthogonal grid to seek variety and spatiality.
The grid was designed on a module of 4.75 x 3.15m, representing minimal structural effort while allowing great flexibility in the arrangement of typologies, as it can accommodate different programs.
The cloister allows each unit to have facades facing the exterior and the courtyard's interior, achieving cross ventilation and eliminating the need for active conditioning.
INTENSIVELY USED OUTDOOR SPACE
As a primary summer residence building, the outdoor space—and its views—is of utmost importance as a place for use: each apartment includes at least one module of outdoor space.
These outdoor spaces are designed for intensive use, incorporating vegetation, wind protection—glass railings—and sun protection with pergolas and eaves. The surrounding vegetation provides privacy and resembles a meadow at height.
CAMOUFLAGE
The result is a building that blends with its surroundings, using native vegetation and terracing to minimize visual impact and harmonize with nature.
FACADE
The building has a concrete structure, but the facade is made of brick, clad with in-situ concrete boards, created with twelve sawed wooden molds to generate variety in the boards.
Originally, all windows were supposed to have shutters, but due to budget constraints, they were eliminated, and eaves were built instead.
SHOPS
To create a separation from Route 10, three blocks of shops were placed, forming a continuity with the existing shops that helped create density and establish a mini commercial hub at the town's entrance.
They are arranged in a comb shape, generating access passages to the Plaza Chica, which precedes the CondoHotel. This Plaza Chica is the restaurant's expansion and connects with the hotel's entrance gallery.
LOBBY
The hotel entrance is discreet, semi-submerged, and cool, located on Lobos Street. It serves as the interior welcome area, which one passes through to return outside and access the units.
The vehicular access is in the same place; the parking space is underground but is illuminated and ventilated through the openings in the vertical circulation.
AMENITIES
The building features a cold pool and a warm pool to the north, surrounded by maritime pines. There is also a large green terrace with barbecue areas, outdoor living spaces, showers, and a wonderful sea view.
