Mutar

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Description Single family Home

Location Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Area 180 m2

Team Florencia Lopez Iriquin, Natalia Kahanoff, Lucila Ottolenghi, Luciana Casoy

Photography Fernando Schapochnik

How do we address preexistence? How do you intervene? A house from 1980 with four continuous brick barrel vaults of different sizes, a fragmentation of the space into multiple rooms, little natural light and no connection between the exterior spaces. The project seeks to give value and enhance these roof elements. The interior of the ground floor is then emptied to support it with new metal columns that define and limit a single, large flexible space. In this way, it is possible to connect the outdoor spaces, generate constant cross ventilation and expand the interior limits of the home.

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Architecture studio

Buenos Aires, Argentina

+54 911 5581 4903

correo.mutar@gmail.com

Mutar is an architecture studio founded in Buenos Aires in 2015 by Lucila Ottolenghi, Natalia Kahanoff, Luciana Casoy, and Florencia López Iriquín. Their practice focuses on housing as a realm for exploring spatial, material, and social dimensions across various scales. They work on both new construction and the transformation of existing structures, approaching each project based on the specific conditions of the site and its inhabitants, as well as the interplay between materiality, structure, spatiality, and architectural expression. Their practice also extends to teaching and research; they currently lead the "Project II: Everyday Rhythms and Community Building" course at Torcuato Di Tella University (UTDT) and teach at the Río de la Plata within the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA).

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