P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S & Maxi Spina
are on familiar terrain with the design of Jujuy Redux, an apartment
building currently under construction in Rosario, Argentina. With Jujuy
2056 completed less than ten years ago, the team returns to the same
street to continue their exploration and invention. Situated on a corner
site in a low density neighborhood, Jujuy Redux challenges the
inescapable components and conventional assemblage of mid-rise housing.
The design centers on the engagement of the building envelope
(balconies, projecting slabs, windows strips, etc.) in an unorthodox
manner as to dissipate the homogeneity of vertical housing. Rather than
stacking the components, the design uses torsion as an apparatus to
carry them up the façade. The balconies peel away at the corners and
torque backwards to create horizontal surfaces, while also framing the
surrounding views. Undulation along the facades presents Jujuy as
simultaneously heavy and light relative to one’s vantage point.
The notion of an architect so invested in exploration and invention
designing a work sharing a previous client, location and program is a
perilous one. However, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S & Maxi Spina avoid the
architectural idiosyncrasy of fetishizing the precedent (which they
designed ) in an effort to offer an innovative approach to mid-rise
housing.
Источник: http://www.evolo.us/architecture/jujuy-redux-apartment-building-in-rosario-argentina-patterns-maxi-spina/ |