Housing in Cuba Street By Canda Gazaneo Ungar Arquitectos, Argentina

November 15, 2009 Category: Housing, Residential

The Housing in Cuba Street was designed by Canda Gazaneo Ungar Arquitectos is located in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  This building is situated in 10 meters. large plot in a typical urban building in Buenos Aires. The 12 units of two residential floors are divided into two compact blocks connected by a steel tower light between them.

This structure contains the elevator shaft, the main staircase and connecting bridges. Due to the fact that the street was so narrow, the building has been suspended for winning the privacy of its neighbors, but reconstructs the street facade with a lightweight frame.

The steel grid floors with wooden deck attached to the Act on the facades of buildings as both the expanding flat terraces and awnings, which provide filtered natural light and heat control. During the night, the interaction of the building, lit like a light box, with steel frame making it look like a Chinese shadow theater. The two blocks floating above the ground floor, resting on eight columns of concrete and acquire the lightness and visual input from the street through the backyard, which has been maintained as a small garden.

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