The project
Shop below, home above.
Olavarría stacks three ways of using the city in one piece. Below, a shop that connects to the public street, taking up the life of La Boca. Above, one- and two-room apartments for different ways of living. On the roof, a shared space with a grill that closes the building as a meeting place and not only as a sum of units.
The facade stacks the shop and the homes behind a grid of dark joinery and glass, readable by day and by night. Inside, the interior looks for a continuous line between the units and the shared spaces: pale timber, simple fittings, courtyard light. Project development went through 3D modelling, the renders and the interior design of those pieces.
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Project decisions
A commercial ground floor, one- and two-room homes, and a roof terrace for residents.
970 square metres in La Boca, with a facade that shows the mixed use by day and by night.
Keep what is its own. Transform what is needed.
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