The project is an urban housing for a family with three girls in Salto, a city located on the eastern bank of the Uruguay River.

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Architects: Paulo Ambrosoni

Location: Salto, Uruguay

Area: 255.0 m2

Project Year: 2013

Photographs: Paulo Ambrosoni

Construction Management: Lucía Preve

Structure: José Burren

Structural Advice: Enrique Peirano

Construction: López, Freitas, Araujo Construcciones

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From the architect. The project is an urban housing for a family with three girls in Salto, a city located on the eastern bank of the Uruguay River.The construction of 255 square meters on two levels is located on the obligatory frontal limit of 3 meters from the street, leaving free the largest patio area for the North sun.The land where the housing is implanted has a public pedestrian passage to the west, on this side the land narrows with a curve in the middle of its depth. This singularity is solved by the garage and a storage room, thus regularizing the patio.
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The Constructive SystemThe project is defined from the choice of the construction system.The city of Salto has an interesting history of works of architecture in brick seen of great quality. Since the 1970s, Eladio Dieste's buildings, among others, have masterfully used t...