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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Sebastián Adamo (1977) and Marcelo Faiden (1977) are architects from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and hold a PhD from the Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona (UPC). Since 2000, they have worked in partnership, and in 2005, they founded Adamo-Faiden, establishing their practice in the heart of Buenos Aires. They are professors at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and the University of Palermo (UP).

They have received numerous awards in national and international competitions, including the Chubut Tourism Subsecretariat, the Argentine Rural Society Events Center, the Salamanca Architects Association, Quaderns 400,000 Habitatges and Europan 7, among others.

Their work has been featured in various exhibitions (Latin American Architecture Biennial 2009, 10th Venice Biennale, hEX Contemporary Argentine Architecture, 4th Ibero-American Biennial—Emerging Panorama, etc.) and they have contributed to specialized publications such as METALOCUS, Summa+, A+U, A+T, among others.

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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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