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An Architect Punches Through the Wall of Two ’50s Properties to Create His Family Home

Hernán Landolfo created natural transitions and a mazelike plan complete with lushly planted courtyards and rooftop terraces.

The Buenos Aires neighborhood of Parque Chas is a labyrinth. A verdant series of concentric circles morphing into squares toward its outer edges, the area has a spoke-and-wheel layout that keeps taxi drivers out for fear of getting lost. Cars thundering along the surrounding avenues don’t bother trying to take the area’s lanes as shortcuts.


Architect Hernán Landolfo combined two adjacent houses on a sun-dappled street in Buenos Aires to create a home for himself, his partner, Lucía Gentile, their daughter, Luisa, and the family dog, Roca.

To Hernán Landolfo, it was perfect. The 39-year-old architect was living in a small house at the time, but when he and his partner, Lucía Gentile, had their daughter, Luisa, now four, they knew they would need more space. So, in 2018, they bought something larger in Parque Chas and moved in the following spring.


At one end of the living room, tall glass doors lead to an interior garden and one of the four openings—in this case more of a crack—that Hernán made between the houses.

Vines climb along the frame of a new circular window in the kitchen. The pink and green floor tiles are original.

See the full story on Dwell.com: An Architect Punches Through the Wall of Two ’50s Properties to Create His Family Home
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By: Amy Booth
Title: An Architect Punches Through the Wall of Two ’50s Properties to Create His Family Home
Sourced From: www.dwell.com/article/hernan-landolfo-parque-chas-renovation-propiedad-horizontales-85b0faca
Published Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 03:56:19 GMT