Author: Architect Leticia Balacek
Location: Villa Garrote, Tigre, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 2008
Area: 20.000 m2
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The land is in a privileged location in Tigre, on the banks of the Luján River and the San Fernando channel. The area, which was degraded and dangerous at the time of the project, had to be transformed into a neighborhood connected to the city and the Delta. The main idea of the project is to rescue the symbols of the Tigre Delta, such as the gabled roofs, the construction with native wood, the docks and the high foundations on palafittes. Extensive wooden walkways will connect the houses and serve as expansions in height. The breaks in the floor plan generate spaces of different scales, with shared patios for two or
three neighbors and others that cover up to twenty houses, forging the sense of belonging and community care.
As for the relationship with the immediate context, different programs are proposed with different degrees of permeability, always privileging the relationship with the river, to a lesser extent with the park and the channel, and limiting the edges towards the train and the station.