Palma House in San Isidro, Buenos Aires Villa Project, Interior, Argentinan Architecture Images
Palma House in San Isidro, Buenos Aires
Real Estate Development in Argentina ? design by Alric Galindez Arquitectos
4 Sep 2019
Palma House
Design: Alric Galindez Arquitectos
Location: San Isidro, Buenos Aires, South America
Palma House

Like a palimpsest, the landscape is rewritten on itself time and again. For many years, large country estates stretched out over the planes of the Pampas. As the city expanded, these were divided into smaller plots of land-in this case, a country estate with many old-growth trees has become a gated community.

On this last plot within the new suburb only two palm trees and a monkey-puzzle tree remained. These trees could have been seen as an obstacle to the building project, but at the same time they presented a chance for a space/time superposition of elements of the original landscape within the new construction.
Spanish:

Como un palimpsesto, el paisaje se reescribe varias veces sobre sí mismo. Durante muchos años grandes quintas se expandían sobre la llanura pampeana. Con el avance de la ciudad, se subdividieron en terreno de menor superficie, transformándose, en este caso, una antigua quinta de árboles longevos en un barrio privado. De esta última subdivisión, solo quedaron dos palmeras y una araucaria. Estos árboles podrían ser un obstáculo para el desarrollo del proyecto, pero también, al mismo tiempo, una oportunidad de superpo...