This Project is located between two blank walls in Colegiales, a neighbourhood of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The request consists in 8 apartments. This particular lot presents the building code R2B1, and is located in an area characterized by a low residential density and a distinguished neighbourhood character.

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Architects: Estudio BaBO

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Design Team: Francisco Kocourek, Francesc Planas Penadés, Marit Haugen Stabell

Area: 811.0 m2

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Javier Agustín Rojas

Other Participants: Sebastian Hoepner

© Javier Agustín Rojas
This Project is located between two blank walls in Colegiales, a neighbourhood of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The request consists in 8 apartments. This particular lot presents the building code R2B1, and is located in an area characterized by a low residential density and a distinguished neighbourhood character.

Axonometric

To respect the urban profile of the immediate context, we decided to give space in prediction of the growth of an existing linden tree on the sidewalk, right in front of the building. To do so, me moved the main facade two meters back from the municipal line, generating a private access atrium, extending the public space into the pr...