Fernandez House is a refurbishment of a townhouse built in the mid 70s in one of the low density areas that can still be found in the neighborhood of Belgrano.

A better communication with the public space, interior privacy, an enlargement of the space and its optimization have been key points for the renovation of this house in the neighborhood of Belgrano. The studio Adamo Faiden Arquitectos has made three specific reforms that address all these issues.

Description of the project by Adamo Faiden Arquitectos

The update consisted in three punctual interventions. The first of them seeks to enhance the connections with the public space while protecting the privacy of the interior space.

To that end, an enclosure device is superposed to the existing front that, by its shape and materiality, intends to build a contemporary way of relating to the exterior. The second intervention focuses on the basement of the house. The change of habits in terms of domestic ecology, plus the update in the installations systems allowed freeing a new space that was reused for the creation of a multi-purpose room. Finally, a light pavilion creates a habitable double-façade system that extends the back limits of the house, mediating between exterior and all the interior instances of it. The position of its openings allows the circulation of the air that crosses through all the areas that were not materially part of the intervention.

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Sebastián Adamo, Marcelo Faiden.
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Collaborators
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Jaime Butler, Gonzalo Yerba.
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Client
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Romina Fernández.
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Years
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2014-2015.
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Construction
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Adamo-Faiden administración de obra.
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Aguilar 2159. Belgrano, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires.
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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 11, 2016
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