It?s a single family home located on a corner lot that occupies the interior of a small pre-existing warehouse, which previously accommodated a weaving workshop. The warehouse in its severity and introversion is utilized as protection from a very proximate urbanity.  

© Federico Cairoli

Architects: Pedro Livni

Location: Pocitos, 11300 Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Architect In Charge: Pedro Livni

Area: 145.0 sqm

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Federico Cairoli , Courtesy of Pedro Livni

© Federico Cairoli

 It?s a single family home located on a corner lot that occupies the interior of a small pre-existing warehouse, which previously accommodated a weaving workshop. The warehouse in its severity and introversion is utilized as protection from a very proximate urbanity.  
© Federico Cairoli

At that time, we were interested in how William Kentdrige, on some of his choreographies, adapts his body to configure it into something else, a theme also very recurring in his engravings. Related to this premise and to produce an estrangement effect in the warehouse associated with other function, the house is constructed through the introduction of a foreign body that occupies it, shapes the interior and grows vertically until becoming visible over the rooftop as a strange o...