Architects: Giusto van Capenhout Photography: Javier Agustín Rojas Construction Period: 2020 Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
The structure of an old house in ruins is the departing point to build a new inhabited space. Instead of imposing a new logic over the ruin, the project intensifies the spatial conditions of the existing structure. The ruin is not understood as something to be preserved, but as a repertoire of operative strategies that emerged by the effects of abandonment. Its condition is understood as matter that generates the ideas to rebuild itself internalizing in that way architecture biggest fear: decay.
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