{"id":498,"date":"2025-11-25T18:11:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:51:33","slug":"casa-podesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/casa-podesta\/","title":{"rendered":"Podest\u00e1 House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Un proyecto de arquitectura residencial \u2014una vivienda unifamiliar nueva\u2014 en el barrio de Villa Real, Ciudad de Buenos Aires. El terreno, totalmente vac\u00edo y sin construcciones previas, se ubica sobre un pasaje en un barrio de car\u00e1cter residencial en cuyo tejido se repiten frecuentemente estos pasajes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two questions emerged from the site visit and the project brief. First: what happens if the experience of the ground floor extends fully to the limits of the plot? And second: if that becomes the spatial condition at ground level, what kinds of relationships can be established on the levels above?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this starting point, the ground floor concentrates all service functions within a compact, opaque volume \u2014toilet, storage, kitchen surfaces. And that is essentially all that occupies this level. This core sets up a series of dualities: it defines a front and a back, yet allows the space to remain continuous and fluid; it produces more contained areas near the party walls but also opens up a large, permeable, ambiguous space spanning the full width and length of the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By contrast, the upper floor is conceived as a closed, suspended volume that hovers without touching the party walls, generating a particular spatial tension. The narrow gaps between this volume and the neighbouring walls become circulation routes and sources of daylight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Inside this \u201cbox\u201d are three bedrooms and two bathrooms \u2014more compact, more intimate spaces that frame views towards the street and its tree canopy. caja<\/em> se disponen tres dormitorios y dos ba\u00f1os. Estos espacios, m\u00e1s acotados y contenidos, ponen al habitante en relaci\u00f3n con el espacio p\u00fablico y sus \u00e1rboles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rooftop, the final level, establishes a third relationship: one with the sky and the broader urban horizon. In this low-rise context, the party walls fall away from view. What remains is simply a floor and the open sky \u2014a terrace that becomes an outdoor living room.\nThe structure reinforces these ideas. The challenge was to materialise a suspended volume that detaches itself from the party walls and seems to float between them, establishing a clear sense of below and above. The strategy involved concealing the columns within the party walls and placing the main beams at roof level, spanning the full 8.60-metre width of the plot. This allows the ground-floor living\u2013dining area to remain completely free of intermediate supports, producing a distinctive spatial tension. abajo<\/em> y un arriba<\/em>. La estrategia consisti\u00f3 en ocultar las columnas en los muros medianeros y llevar las vigas al nivel de la terraza, con luces que abarcan todo el ancho del terreno \u20148,60 metros\u2014. De este modo, el estar-comedor en planta baja queda libre de apoyos intermedios, generando una tensi\u00f3n espacial particular.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Un proyecto de arquitectura residencial \u2014una vivienda unifamiliar nueva\u2014 en el barrio de Villa Real, Ciudad de Buenos Aires. El terreno, totalmente vac\u00edo y sin construcciones previas, se ubica sobre un pasaje en un barrio de car\u00e1cter residencial en cuyo tejido se repiten frecuentemente estos pasajes. De estas premisas y la visita al terreno surgieron […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"tipologia":[13],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-propio","tipologia-residencial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"tipologia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juanvaleros.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipologia?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}