Jujuy Redux

Actar, High Density, Marcelo Spina, Maxi Spina Architects, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, Project, Southern Coexistences, Technology and fabrication, Total Latin American Architecture

Argentina, Building, Concrete, Flexibility, Housing, Multi-scalar, Multiscale approach, Project, Rosario, Searches on scales, Technological Approach, Urban conditions, White concrete

Published in Total Latin American Architecture.

The vertical apartment building, or so-called PH [which stands for the Spanish phrase “propiedad horizontal,” or horizontal property in English] is perhaps the most intellectually underestimated architectural program in Argentina, an uncanny combination of both economical speculation driven by private developers and construction companies, and the constraints of an over-subdivided urban grid that provides very narrow plots for actual interventions.