The Chorizo House is one of the Buenos Aires’s most common typologies. Mostly developed at the beginning of the 20th century they are defined by an exterior corridor that distributed a series of separate rooms in enfilade. Each of the rooms houses a specific function and organized the lives of the immigrants that arrived by masses during the 1900s. When we were asked to destroy and old Casa Chorizo to build a new house, we proposed to keep the house structure and make architecture by subtracting material, not driven by a nostalgic desire of preservation but with the positivist intention to transcend its spatial qualities.

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La entrada Chorizo House se publicó primero en Global Spaces.

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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La entrada Casa Jardín se publicó primero en Global Spaces.