PH Helguera | OADD arquitectos
Vivienda Urbana Buenos Aires / Argentina / 2023
The challenge was to completely transform the old "ph", which functioned as a carpentry shop. Modify the original structure (dark rooms) with spaces full of light that open onto a large void, a longitudinal patio with a contemporary and welcoming imprint.
In this sense, the Helguera "ph" is an architectural signifier of change: a home that has evolved into a radical comprehensive proposal.
The idea of a patio that articulates the social floor (living room, kitchen) with the grill, allows for a fluid development of both the daily and domestic activities of the home and broader social gatherings. This leads to separating the bedrooms on the ground floor, on a higher plane to improve lighting and privacy conditions. As a programmatic corollary, a large terrace is created that functions as a catalyst for outdoor activities.
The language of the ph refers to the old brick walls that composed it, generating a forceful aesthetic constructive solution and a material reality that is shown in its most genuine stereotomic quality. The simple condition of stacking masonry helped create a rough envelope of pregnant color, releasing the interior to a smooth white color. We call this design condition the “coconut paradigm” and it operates in a constant dialectic of sensory contrasts and temporal differences. In this way, we integrate preexistence as the germ of the new, reinterpretation and rereading as an indispensable design tool.
The challenge was to completely transform the old "ph", which functioned as a carpentry shop. Modify the original structure (dark rooms) with spaces full of light that open onto a large void, a longitudinal patio with a contemporary and welcoming imprint.In this sense, the Helguera "ph" is an architectural signifier of change: a home that has evolved into a radical comprehensive proposal.The idea of a patio that articulates the social floor (living room, kitchen) with the grill, allows for a...
- Year 2023
- Work started in 2022
- Work finished in 2023
- Status Completed works
- Type Single-family residence
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