The building has a ground floor plus 6 floors, and a formal identity image. The architects carried out an interesting investigation on new typologies that allow new configurative possibilities of living, responding to contemporary programs.
Floors 1 to 4 were organized placing the core of stairs and elevator in the rear corner of the party walls, then the access areas are located and in parallel, a linear band that organizes and collects all the wet rooms, to then give way to all rooms facing Monroe street. The 5th and 6th floors are occupied by two double-height houses.
M 5605 building by Arqtipo. Photograph by Federico Kulekdjian.
M 5605 building by Arqtipo. Photograph by Federico Kulekdjian.
Project description by Arqtipo
The M 5606 building questioned us about the possible ways of approaching our design practice. The proposal recognizes the temporal and spatial instances inherent to the project, based on the recognition of the categories of contextualization (between insertion and implementation), configuration (between a material object and the system), and disposition (between what is determined and the indeterminate).
Contextualization
M 5605 is a horizontal property building located in the Villa Urquiza neighbourhood with ten functional units, on a small corner lot measuring 8.80 × 12.72 m. It is located in a medium residential fabric, adjacent to the FF. CC. Mitre. Multiple contextual relationships are proposed, from incorporating the public space into the interior of its entire ground floor to a single floor. Like the recognition of its pre-existing boundaries, inferring possible relationships and distances from its expansions. In addition, it incorporates the upper setbacks to the envelope in a sensitive way that promotes greater empathy in its environment.
M 5605 building by Arqtipo. Photograph by Federico Kulekdjian.
M 5605 building by Arqtipo. Photograph by Federico Kulekdjian.
Configuration
The building maximizes its constructive capacity, from a mono-material envelope using the Bricko brick from Corblock. In this sense, material experimentation is allowed based on various precise morphological operations (repetition, section, linking) to assume its own complexity, and investigate the encounters, arrangements, modes of union and fixations with the intention of configuring an atmosphere desired. (light and space in a constant interpellation).
The treatment of the expansions, as bellows in the perimeters of the façade, have the purpose of mitigating the noise and allow to regulate the gradients of privacy, luminosity and opacity in relation to the exterior.
M 5605 building by Arqtipo. Photograph by Federico Kulekdjian.
Layout
The building is arranged on the ground floor and 6 levels high, proposing a tension between form, space and matter, based on the search for identity. The housing units investigate new configurative possibilities of living, which allow their adaptability and contemporaneity.
