The original project is a unifamillar housing developed on a single level, introverted, which disintegrates in a medium-sized building occupying the totality of the building area on the ground that the normative allows. The building rests on one side of the site, creating a void on the opposite side where the main access is resolved, and connects the garden to the front with a small backyard.

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Architects: Fernando De Rossa, Virginia Miguel

Location: Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Project Year: 2011

Photographs: Federico Cairoli

Structure: Silvia Zinno

Original Project: Joel Petit de la Villeon
Original Structure: Pedro Hetzel

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From the architect. The original project is a unifamillar housing developed on a single level, introverted, which disintegrates in a medium-sized building occupying the totality of the building area on the ground that the normative allows. The building rests on one side of the site, creating a void on the opposite side where the main access is resolved, and connects the garden to the front with a small backyard.The structural organization is given by a succession of parallel bands perpendicular to the street covered by Catalan vaults of different dimensions. Under the vaults a series of dense walls, rough plaster, delimit the different...