This project takes into account the relationship of the buildings with their service areas or secondary and the boundary that forms between the building itself and the sky.

The Piñeiro house, designed by the architectural Argentine Adamo-Faiden is the result of wanting to improve overall waste those areas on the roofs of buildings and as taught in the landscape of the city at that level. Generating an open space with a very simple program or simply materiality that aims to improve what already exists without being a focus of attention.
 

Description of the project by Adamo Faiden Arquitectos

There is a new surface made of isolated enclosures in the air. They are house tops and service terraces, the infrastructural residues of the buildings that rule the Buenos Aires landscape. These spaces are privileged places. When we conquer them, we are able to perch on the edge of the city, in contact with the atmosphere. Downwards the pulsing street, and upwards the vast sky, the geographical incident that domains this new stratum. There we settle nimbly, in need of nothing else but the desire of being part of both worlds. Towards the interior of the pavilion, we built an environment that filtrates and selects those stimuli that inform it, which sets it up in the world without it meaning to give up autonomy. A system of awnings and a perimeter garden wrap around the metal structure that holds both the vertical glass panels and a light cover. Its two rooms allow different relationships with the weather and the uses that its varieties provide.

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Adamo Faiden Arquitectos. Architects.- Sebastián Adamo, Marcelo Faiden.

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Damiano Finetti.

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Nicolás Piñeiro.

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Adamo-Faiden administración de obra.

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2015.

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adamo-faiden. Architecture practice was established in Buenos Aires in 2005 by Sebastián Adamo (1977) and Marcelo Faiden (1977). They are architects from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and PhD from the School of Architecture of Barcelona (UPC). They have been working as partners since 2000, and in 2005 they founded Adamo-Faiden, starting their journey from the centre of Buenos Aires. They are professors at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and the University of Palermo (UP).

Their work includes the field of teaching and research and has been internationally recognised by different media and institutions. His works have been exhibited at the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennial, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Venice Architecture Biennial, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the LIGA Architecture Gallery in Mexico, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, the Storefront for Art & Architecture in New York, and at the Princeton University School of Architecture.

Seven monographic publications have compiled adamo-faiden’s work, including a+u 2024:10. “Adamo-Faiden” Selective Memory; Revista 2G Nº91. adamo-faiden: International Architecture (Editorial Walther & Franz König); Inventory (Actar, Barcelona, ​​Spain); “Adamo-Faiden. El constructor contemporáneo. 2007-2018” (TC Prospectiva, Valencia, Spain); “Adamo-Faiden. 2007/2017” (Casa editrice Libria, Melfi, Italy); 2G ​​Magazine Nº65 “Adamo-Faiden” (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, ​​Spain); and Monographic Book “Adamo-Faiden” (ARQ Editions, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile). In 2019, Agustín Fiorito became an associate architect of the firm, inaugurating at the same time the headquarters of adamo-faiden in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Sebastián Adamo is an architect from the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA) and has a master's degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAB-UPC). He has been a visiting professor at the School of Architecture of Princeton University, the Polytechnic University of Milan, FADU-UBA and Torcuato Di Tella University. He has also been a guest lecturer at numerous institutions, such as the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Porto School of Architecture, the Polytechnic University of Milan, the RIBA in London, the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, the Polytechnic School of Architecture in Madrid, the University of Talca and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Marcelo Faiden is an architect from the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA) with an honours degree and a master's degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (ETSAB-UPC). He received his doctorate (ETSAB-UPC) with his thesis "The ground floors of tall buildings". He is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Torcuato Di Tella University. He was a visiting professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Princeton University, FADU-UBA, University of Palermo, and Torcuato Di Tella University. He has been invited to give courses and lectures at numerous institutions such as the Canadian Center for Architecture, the School of Architecture of Madrid, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the School of Architecture of Valencia, the Escola da Cidade de Sao Paulo, the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Montevideo and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

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Published on: April 19, 2016
Cite: "A house on the edge of city" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/a-house-edge-city> ISSN 1139-6415
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