This is an urban building of small units that focused primarily on the simplicity of decision-making and a contribution to the thinking of how we should shape our cities when solving a building between walls in a metropolitan context. Immersed in an eternal plot of an Urban “Horizontal Vertigo”, we had to take a forceful reflection. (In this sentence I refer to an anecdote that Justo Solsona shared with me referring to a trip to Argentina by poet Paul Valery, and his comments about the Pampa. Using that expression about the Pampa, I take it from the extensive horizontal urban footprint that presents the metropolis of Buenos Aires).


 
The lateral growth that found no limits in the extensions around Buenos Aires, neither rivers nor mountain chains or valleys contained it, from the eternal coast to the east inwards, the urban footprint grew in all directions. This generated a very particular city, in which green spaces were neglected since there was always enough green going beyond... The green parks are a very precious places and eternal vanishing points make up almost the entire city in an orthogonal plot. We acted on these vanishing Point.






The building is located in the Palermo neighborhood, which had a very present history in its architecture but the ability to densify the area filled the buildable volume with nine-story buildings, which not only accentuates the vanishing points of the city but makes them high on their sides.


 


We proposed a single detail that resolves the façade through concrete horizontals on continuous planter beds that generate a very simple horizontal rhythm on the facade and at the same time allows a great presence of green in its development.






The landscaping of this hard and green façade at the same time was designed so that in each season of the year the building changes for the city, reflecting it, and at the same time proposing that this Living façade breathes during the year. Since we did it, we have enjoyed this change, always promising to make a time-lapse of this dance, which we have not yet done.