The project involves the comprehensive refurbishment of a single-family home in the Coghlan neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The original house, measuring around 200 m², had only two bedrooms and two bathrooms, revealing an inefficient layout for its size and the needs of its current client. The intervention seeks to make better use of the space and improve the home’s relationship with its urban surroundings.
Prometeo Passage —a ten-metre-wide street planted with orange trees— creates a calm, distinctly domestic atmosphere, markedly different from the scale and character of the wider city streets. This particular context guided the design of the front façade and its relationship with the public realm:
a series of layered screens filters views and sunlight, allowing the ground-floor rooms to open towards the street while maintaining privacy. Towards the rear, the house opens fully onto the garden, forming an integrated kitchen and living space that extends daily life outdoors. At the centre of the plan, a compact core containing the staircase and the toilet organises the ground-floor sequence between dining, kitchen and living areas.
On the upper level, small operations —adjusting balconies, refining setbacks, and reconfiguring internal partitions— made it possible to add a new bedroom and bathroom while preserving and enlarging a family room overlooking the central void. This double-height connection enhances the visual and spatial continuity between both levels.
Construction and materiality
The transformation involved a complete renewal of the building services and exterior windows, with new aluminium-framed double-glazed units and a radiator heating system replacing the former central air heating. This latter change made it possible to remove the existing suspended ceilings and restore the rooms’ original height. The recovered height also informed a new material expression, in which the exposed concrete structure contrasts with
smooth white walls, light-coloured floors and natural timber surfaces. The resulting palette of pale tones and textured surfaces reinforces a sense of brightness and spaciousness, allowing the original structure to become a defining element of the project’s architectural identity.
