The order consisted of two “duplex” type homes on a 400 m2 lot in a neighborhood in the Cordoba suburb, very close to the city's ring road. Our position regarding the assignment was from the beginning to look for a way to densify the lot through the incorporation of a third unit. This decision implied an idea of investigating ways of making architecture for rent, collaborating to create a more compact city. Córdoba It suffers the consequences of the horizontal expansion of the urban area, towards the small mountains (northwest of the city), the “oil stain” that worries so much when thinking about the development of a more sustainable city. This is how we propose to work with 3 units, two of them in triplex and one on two levels that incorporates the first inhabitant of the place, an approximately 15-year-old carob tree, who undoubtedly had to become the protagonist of the home that houses it. would welcome
Three houses and a carob tree