A house in front of the river or the offices of a shipyard?

In a corner facing the river and the Prefecture of San Isidro is located the house that would become the headquarters of the Shipyards SPI SA.

On the one hand, the distribution of the existing house was not adapted to the needs of an office building and at the same time, the project had to consider that in the future the construction with a very low budget should be adapted again to a detached townhouse.

On the other hand, the design challenge was how to insert an institutional building without breaking with the physiognomy of a traditional neighborhood of houses facing the river. With a double skin, it is possible to present a single volume, a white box that respects the morphology of the neighborhood and that transmits the values of the company that would contain.

CREDITS

client > Servicios Portuarios Integrados SA
location > San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
site area > 309 m2 / 3.326 sqft
built area > 345 m2 / 3.713 sqft
project > 2012
construction > –
status > executive project

author > Oliverio Najmias
collaborator > Santiago Passalacqua