The project includes the intervention in an existing single-family house located in the neighborhood of El Prado, Montevideo. The starting point is to build a functional and unified interior, where all the interior uses and events of the house can coexist simultaneously.
The best option was to expand the house on a new level, with a non-traditional construction system. In this way, the footprint was maintained on the ground without losing sunlight or free part of the garden.
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The original house occupies a high percentage of the land, the remaining space was made up of a dry flagstone patio and a load-bearing wall construction with few openings. which was used as a laundry and storage room. The family felt the lack of a yard to which to expand. The main idea was to … Read more
Recycling stems from the need to generate an independent housing unit in the first available room in the typology. We decided to generate a single space divided in height by a light mezzanine to take advantage of the light that the windows facing the street could provide to the unit. it.
