This apartment from the 60´s is located in Barrio Norte, one of the most densely populated zones of Buenos Aires City, was responding to particular criteria of a high-rise housing in a socio-economic context that has moved its center of gravity. The distribution of spaces, according to the prevailing social protocols, offered a segmented to be redefined plan.The intervention focuses on two overlapping actions: integration and qualification.

Architects: IR arquitectura

Location: Barrio Norte, CABA, Argentina

Project Team: Luciano Intile, Enrico Cavaglia, Fermin Indavere, Stephen Basili Tonoli

Area: 60.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Javier Agustin Rojas, IR arquitectura
© Javier Agustin Rojas

This apartment from the 60´s is located in Barrio Norte, one of the most densely populated zones of Buenos Aires City, was responding to particular criteria of a high-rise housing in a socio-economic context that has moved its center of gravity. The distribution of spaces, according to the prevailing social protocols, offered a segmented to be redefined plan.The intervention focuses on two overlapping actions: integration and qualification.

© Javier Agustin Rojas

In a first step fragmentary spaces whose characteristics proved obsolete to the needs of contemporary use, they are unified: entrance hall, ...