Architecture firm BBOA has completed a government-backed housing scheme in Argentina featuring irregular residential blocks clad with pale pink bricks.
The project is located in Granadero Baigorria, a town in the Argentine province of Santa Fe.
It is part of a programme in which government-subsidised lines of credit are offered to residents to enable them to own their own homes.
The housing project by BBOA is in Santa Fe, Argentina
The low-cost development was built on state-owned land that formerly belonged to the National Railway System.
The long, linear property is bordered on one side by railroad tracks. The other sides are surrounded by trees and urban development.
Railroad tracks and trees surround the development
The project was designed by BBOA, or Balparda Brunel Oficina de Arquitectura, which is based in the city of Rosario. The architects' overall goal was to create a unique design that departed from the norm for multifamily housing developments in the country, which tend to be homogeneous.
The blocks are clad in pink bricks
"The project acknowledges the issue of the impersonal style in housing complexes and the infinite repetition of dwellings of identical characteristics, as opposed to the need of identity and acknowledgement of individuality," the team said.
For the flat site, the firm conceived a mix of buildings that vary between three, four and eight levels. Totalling 12,700 square metres, the development encompasses 105 residences and eight space...