Located in a coastal forest, 1km away from the Atlantic Ocean, in Uruguay, the Sociedad de Mar residential is a group of dwellings that seeks to install an alternative tourism model on the immediate periphery of one of the most exclusive seaside resorts: Jose Ignacio, Uruguay.

The studio based in Buenos Aires Adamo-Faiden Arquitectos has built this residential complex with reinforced concrete as the protagonist. Elaborated in situ by only five workers, each house has small variations that make them unique. This feature, together with its position on the plot, generates a dialogue with the pre-existing conditions of the place: the trees. A proposal that reflects the tradition of exceptional developments such as "Punta Ballena" by Antonio Bonet Castellana on the Uruguayan coast.

Description of the project by Adamo-Faiden Arquitectos

20 dwellings that share a pool and a multipurpose pavilion are distributed regularly spaced within a plot of about 60 square meters side by side, trying to reproduce the way in which the trees that surround them are installed. A very limited set of materials, space and organizational variables eventually outline a new species that seeks to coexist with all of those who already cohabited the forest.

Each one of the buildings is positioned on the ground without changing the qualities of the soil that it is not used. For this purpose, two ways to access the dwellings are projected. In the upper area of the ground a private patio precedes every house while the lower part the access is through an air patio. The formal alternation that these both patios typologies propose, allows to test a dialogue with the existing trees, while characterizing transversal circulations. Conversely, three parallel gaps to the glen diagonally intersect the grouping, offering an intermediate scale between the forest and dwellings. The use of reinforced concrete made on site extends to all buildings by a horizontal pattern, sized from job possibilities of a group of five workers. The resulting texture sets out the specific perforations to each one of the dwellings, always different and always similar to each other.

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

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Gonzalo Yerba, Javier Bracamonte, Nicolás Frenkiel, Florencia Tortorelli, Julia Hajnal.

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Client
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Adrián D'Amario / Sociedad de Mar.

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Structure
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Ing. Sebastian Berdichevsky.

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Andrea Carnero.

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Bonin-Cardozo.

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2015

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José Ignacio, Uruguay.

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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 6, 2016
Cite: "Holidays in the forest. Summer dwellings of Sociedad de Mar by Adamo-Faiden Arquitectos" METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/holidays-forest-summer-dwellings-sociedad-de-mar-adamo-faiden-arquitectos> ISSN 1139-6415
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