EUCALYPTUS BUILDING

Arquitectos:Jorge Ferrari Hardoy / Juan Kurchan

ENRIQUE ALARCON RAVELLO

MEIP 2015

MEIP OV - WORKSHOP 1 - ENRIQUE ALARCON R.

POIESIS CENTER, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN AND URBANISM, UNIVERSITY OF BUENOS AIRES - 2015
LOCATION The building is located at Calle Virrey del Pino 2446 - Belgrano neighborhood.
Arquitectos: Jorge Ferrari Hardoy / Juan Kurchan Año de proyecto: 1941 -1944

In the Belgrano neighborhood, in an area

purely residential at the moment of
to project this building, on a piece of land of
generous dimensions (26.75m front x
38.28m deep) with a grove of
eucalyptus in front of you towards the northwest, the
architects designed a 10-story building
intended for multi-family housing.
 CONTEXT

TEMPORAL
MACRO MICRO
• World War II, government • Austral Group formed in 1941.
presided by Ramón Catillo, The architects had worked
unstable political situation. with Le Corbusier in 1938.
• Crisis of Modern Architecture in the • The Regulations until 1948: Only
world, was seen as a style I could rent a type of housing
more. department, do not buy.
• The Buenos Aires plan considers • They searched for land in Belgrano to
Belgrano as "Satellite Nucleus". put their theories into practice and
• Scarcity of materials due to the rent the apartments.
second war. • Modern aesthetic approach.

SPATIAL

• It takes place in the Belgrano neighborhood, during those years (1941), it maintained a profile
of low height and low density.
 CONTEXT

TEMPORAL

After Le Corbusier's visit in 1929 to

Buenos Aires, a plan was developed for its
growth. The Austral group would be one
of the main stakeholders in your
execution. Of this, only could be
consolidate project developments
housing isolated in a plan that does not
vería la luz.

SPACIAL
The neighborhood of Belgrano would see a change
of gradual density and the new
horizontal property regulations of
1948 was of great importance for
its growth and urban development
that rescues the ideas put forward from the
new city like the towers of 20
floors that are developed up to the
current events.
 FINES

EXTERNAL

• Self-commission of the Ferrari Hardoy family to develop the theories of the group
Southern

INTERNOS

• Putting into practice the thought of the Austral group - UTILITY AND BEAUTY
FOR INTERNAL USE
COMPOSITION
SQUAD
TRANSFORM
Visual to the patio
MABLE
WITHDRAWN FROM THE
STREET

RESPECT to reconcile
INCLUDE
NATURE /
MAINTAIN
THE DUALITY
MAN:
GEOMETRY NO
EUCLIDEAN IN
THE
EUCALYPTUS
EUCALYPTUS INDIVIDUAL Y
Collective
ROUTE

CORRIDOR OF
SERVICE /
GROUND FLOOR OF UNITS NO
SERVICES REPEATED
COMMONS
 FINES

INTERNOS

Common use area on the ground floor Obtain a larger number of floors, reducing
Height from 3.00m to 2.70m - Densify

Orient the view towards

the green zone - From
inside out

Maintain Eucalyptus
Existing –Respect
Insertion of the service corridor at the bottom. for nature

Forms No
Euclidean

Transformables

Grant a green area space

Units no toward the street –Project
repeated City
 AREAS OF ACTION

PROFESSION
• It is acted upon from the profession, however, the building reflects a deep interest of
Austral group in implementing a series of influences coming from Le
Corbusier trained in the Austral group.
• They innovate in the urban architectural solution, in which each project is conceived.
as a preview of a new city, which they envision as a great
project.
TRAINING

• While in France, they receive influences

MOV.
MODERN BONET vital to form your own
/MATTA /
BERTHOLD THE
PAUL Southern thought, in turn, this is
LUBETKIN CORBUSIER
NELSON will become in Argentina, a benchmark in the
time for future architects.
Bonet: Surrealism in the modern.
FERRARI Surrealism Berthold Lubetkin: The service corridor.
HighPoint II / Drape
KURCHAN wet
Paul Nelson: The Useless Space. Architecture
Corridor
Service Useless Space as in the arts, must reduce the 'space
"useful" to give way to the use of useless spaces,
vital for the spiritual development of
individual.
GROUP Roberto Matta: Wet Sheets The man is imprisoned
SOUTHERN in the partitioned space and to free oneself psychologically requires
elements of non-Euclidean geometry in order to unblock their
mecanismos de conciencia.
 DIMENSIONS

THEORY
• Under Le Corbusier's theories for housing and those promoted by the plan for
Buenos Aires
• For Austral, man was dual: individual and collective, and in his works they had to break
with that duality, proposing non-Euclidean forms that dilute the
repetitive of collective housing, provide community life on the ground floor and should be
transformable on the inside.
METHODOLOGY
• A path is proposed towards...
Towards a free and modern man
Towards a city project: densified, zoned, organized, and green spaces.

TECHNIQUE

• Due to the scarcity of materials, concrete is used according to modern principles.

armed, with the facades equipped with awnings and glass blocks, use is made of the
polychromy on the facades.
 COMPONENTS

UTILITIES
• For the time, the proposal is innovative, contemplating a new way of inhabiting.
with common area zones on the ground floor, parking in basements, and a
park on the roof of it, also proposes the separate service corridor,
double heights and terrace gardens are proposed.
• The proposals involve the fact that they are transformable. The design technique is
from the inside out, without ducts allowing enjoyment of lighting, ventilation and
visual oriented to the internal park.

STRENGTH
• El uso es el hormigón armado por sus bondades y características globales, acá no
It will be the exception, the structure allows for the façade.

VENUSTAS

• The concrete will allow the use of floor-to-ceiling windows, the shades appear,
aerators and glass blocks, achieving a facade with multiple planes.
• The polychrome facade (reds, greens, and browns) is accentuated in the areas of the
trees.
• The intentional retreat allows for an appreciation of a perspective idealized by the architects,
the presence of the building is almost surprising.
• The Duplexes are finished with gardens on terraces and the parasols act at night.
like lattices that reflect the inner life between the plays of opening and closing.
 COMPONENTS

UTILITY

The corridor of
service to the back with access
secondary and elevators
direct to the units
(Berthold Lubetkin
(METHODOLOGY FROM THE
UTILITY

Typologies different y
transformable

Ground Floor: Usable patio

común, restaurante, cocina,
porter's lodge, lounge of
reading y basement of
parking. (TECHNIQUE OF
THE UTILITY
New way of living: living
double height (Le Corbusier).
(THEORY OF UTILITARIANISM)
 COMPONENTS

Beauty - Strength
A facade is proposed
integrated into its structure, the
which is composed of elements
corridos and of transparency.
Elegance of Scarcity
(TECHNIQUE AND METHODOLOGY OF
THE BEAUTY AND STRENGTH

The terraces of the penthouse

they crown the building with areas
greens. (TECHNIQUEDE LA
VENUSTAS
Facade governed by its structure,
this withdrawal creates a green space
of contemplation, its remains
essence (Eucalyptus), appears the
polychrome at the rate of a Mondrian
with light basic colors. (THEORY
OF BEAUTY)
Details such as the sunshades of Le Corbusier appear (TECHNIQUE OF THE
VENUSTAS