The housing building located in the Mariano Acha Street, represents an investigation developed throughout theprojectabout two themes of great importance for us when the opportunity of operating on traditional lots in the city appears, implying a collective housing program. 

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Architects: MONOBLOCK

Location: Mariano Acha 1973, C1430DUM CABA, Argentina

Area: 603.0 m2

Project Year: 2013

Photography: Javier Agustín Rojas

Monoblock Team: Marcos Amadeo, Fernando Cynowiec Paez, Juan Granara, Adrián Russo, Alexis Schachter, Osvaldo Cheula, Martin Mayan, Marina Mazzocchi.

Collaborator: Juan Pita

© Javier Agustín Rojas
From the architect. The housing building located in the Mariano Acha Street, represents an investigation developed throughout theprojectabout two themes of great importance for us when the opportunity of operating on traditional lots in the city appears, implying a collective housing program. 

© Javier Agustín Rojas

These themes are: the revision of the latent possibilities of the lots between party walls, and the material expression of the buildings.

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The volume of the building, from the third storey upward, rotates the traditional lot’s logic of Buenos Aires, giving place to a lateral façade...