Forbici Academy 改造项目丨阿根廷拉普拉塔丨Hargar Studio

Architects:Hargar Studio

Area:300m²

Year:2022

Photographs:Luís Barandiarán

Text description provided by the architects. The Forbici Academy is a renovation project of an existing building that lacks a façade in the center of the city of La Plata. A foundational "chorizo" house that over time has filled its remaining patios, occupying 100% of the lot and depriving most of its rooms of air and light.

Understanding the potential of the built heritage, minimal interventions are made, and existing structures such as load-bearing exposed brick walls and brick vaults on IPN profiles are valued and recovered.

The strategies involved creating a lung of air and light in the center of the lot, an internal patio that also articulates the circulation between floors. On the other hand, a new façade towards the city was constructed, a neutral and translucent envelope of glass bricks that matches the height of the neighboring buildings to create a new space in an old, unused terrace. Finally, inside, the spaces are stripped down to create generous and flexible rooms, enhanced perceptually by optical effects of mirrored planes and movable objects.

Programmatically, the project organizes mixed hairdressing salons on the ground floor and a hairdressing academy on the upper floor.

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