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Once Building by Adamo-Faiden
Argentinian architects Adamo-Faiden have completed a building in Buenos Aires that could either be used for offices or apartments.
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The building contains six basic modular units that the architects claim would comfortably suit both possible uses, each featuring floor-to-ceiling heights of just over three metres.
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Recessed balconies span both the front and back of the building and are filled with plants to help shade the interior spaces.
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Car parking spaces are slotted beneath the building on the sunken ground floor and there's a shared garden on the roof.
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Currently three of the units are being used as offices, two as apartments and one is providing a studio for an artist.
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We've published a few projects by Buenos Aires studio Adamo-Faiden, including a club house in the middle of a lake. See them all here.
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Photography is by Cristobal Palma.
Here's a little more information from Adamo-Faiden:
Once building
The building is situated in Núñez, a neighborhood whose development brings a balanced densification to the city of Buenos Aires. Its peripheral condition and efficient connectivity with the rest of the city turns it today into a desirable alternative for residential and tertiary programmes.
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The building incorporates to its own organization this notion of mixed city through the construction of six spaces, which are programmatically undetermined but spatially specific, understanding that a path to the intensification of the inhabitating opens from this apparent contradiction.
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The expansion of the internal free height to 3.15m. allows the existence of spaces with higher depth without losing the optimal comfort conditions that guarantee its habitability.
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Achieving adepth and compact building that minimizes the energy exchange between the interior and the environment.
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The enclosure is materialized with a vegetable mattress that protects the three facades exposed to the sun, while incorporating a space for leisure where nature finds its desired protagonism.
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The microperforated awnings placed in both facades return towards the city a veiled picture of the vegetation they enclose, echoing the ambiguity the building is intended to set up.
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