Housing Block / FDS Architects
Architects: SDS Architects
Location: Altos de la Tahona, Canelones, Uruguay
Project Team: Facundo de Souza, Edward Levitas
Construction: Gianotti SA
Program: Single Family
Surface: 400 m2
Project Year: 2006
Year of completion: 2009
Photo: Jose Pampin
Challenge
The dedicated customer before the sale of machinery, including machine-vibrated concrete Block Making offers to our area a special request: to build a house for his family entirely of blocks produced by "their" machines.
Challenge: Party
Make a house starting from the unity of the masonry material, conveying the rationality of his logic coarse material and using the expression itself of this "artificial stone"
Plant
A block nave seen the inside and outside, with all north-facing rooms served flanked by a linear white ship and another ship timely services to area relationship.
Motherboards
To express the ex-professed willingness to demonstrate the constructive logic of aesthetic and structural masonry, releasing its limits in both plan and elevation
Space
It is proposed to incorporate spatial fluidity, projection views, encourage users to interrelationships within the frame of the landscape
Building inclusive
Building inclusive environment. Control of windows opening to the north, south enclosure where the prevailing winds punished, grass roof on low block, control systems for radiation shutters, vents horizontal and vertical cross.
Product
Inserted into the generic architecture of the neighborhood mostly seems to have good reception in laymen and architects, is that whether there is a compromise between arch. commercial and arch. Academy? Or simply need more customers like this?
