Casa La Inesita, Córdoba Housing, Argentinian Real Estate Design, Architecture Photography
Casa La Inesita in Córdoba
21 Jan 2021
Casa La Inesita
Design: Andres Alonso Architecture Workshop
Location: Villa Allende, Cordoba, Argentina
La Inesita is a 550 sqm building, formed by 6 homes, arranged over an 800 sqm lot, located in a residential neighborhood of Villa Allende City, Cordoba, Argentina.

The city has suffered a densification process which has worried a sector of the population, who sees this development as a threat to the single-family household residences of some neighborhoods and, consequently to the way these were perceived and experienced a few years ago, endangering its identity as a city-town.

Added to this phenomenon, there is a lack of urban planning that takes into account the need of urban spaces and equipment; this, to our understanding, has contributed to the loss of the small town character, excluding the encounters between neighbors and reducing public spaces to streets and sidewalks, these last ones lacking in many cases.
Based on this, we understand that intervention should begin, on one hand, by resolving the impact that greater densification in the area could generate, and on the other, by proposing solutions to the lack of urban spaces and equipment.

In consequence, with this analysis, the removal of the standard front face is conceded to public space generating a sidewalk extension with a bench that runs all along the façade. This way it ...