Excerpt: Cinco Casas is a housing project designed by the architectural firm AEC Arquitectura. Architecture must be able to respond to increase density in an environment characterized by the void. The project takes shape on a single volume elevated from the ground. As a result, the ground floor, through outdoor and semi-covered spaces, transitions between the street, the access, and the rear garden and remits to the characteristics of suburban housing.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] La Plata is going through a process of constant expansion that grows beyond its original boundaries and extends to the cities that form the Gran La Plata area.
![Cinco Casas | AEC Arquitectura](https://cdn.archidiaries.com/2022/08/Cinco-Casas_img-11.jpg)
The houses are located in City Bell, originally a peripheral garden neighborhood consisting of weekend homes and small farms. Nowadays, it has been consolidated as an autonomous center.
![Cinco Casas | AEC Arquitectura](https://cdn.archidiaries.com/2022/08/Cinco-Casas_img-5.jpg)
Architecture must be able to respond to increase density in an environment characterized by the void. The project takes shape on a single volume elevated from the ground. As a result, the ground floor, through outdoor and semi-covered spaces, transitions between the street, the access, and the rear garden and remits to the characteristics of suburban housing.
![Cinco Casas | AEC Arquitectura](https://cdn.archidiaries.com/2022/08/Cinco-Casas_img-3.jpg)
Each unit has private access from the street, pedestrian, and vehicular, and its spaces of expansion to front and counter-front, giving a sense of unique housing in use beyond the form that groups them.
![Cinco Casas | AEC Arquitectura](https://cdn.archidiaries.com/2022/08/Cinco-Casas_Drawings-9.jpg)
![Cinco Casas | AEC Arquitectura](https://cdn.archidiaries.com/2022/08/Cinco-Casas_img-7.jpg)
The high volume achieves long views of the wooded environment through large glazed window walls that erase the boundary between interior and exterior.
![Cinco Casas | AEC Arquitectura](https://cdn.archidiaries.com/2022/08/Cinco-Casas_img-15.jpg)
![Cinco Casas | AEC Arquitectura](https://cdn.archidiaries.com/2022/08/Cinco-Casas_img-19.jpg)
Services and circulations are grouped on a narrow side of the unit plan. This operation provides flexibility to the rest of the main areas of use of the house, connecting both open areas: front and rear garden, gaining in this process cross ventilation.
![Cinco Casas | AEC Arquitectura](https://cdn.archidiaries.com/2022/08/Cinco-Casas_img-20.jpg)
Towards the Northwest, a double façade creates a space of expansion that provides climate protection, hides the street’s visuals, and generates a dialogue with the existing classic brick constructions of the environment.