The architecture firm BBOA has completed the Baigorria housing project in Granadero Baigorria in the Argentine province of Santa Fe. The government-backed housing scheme features 105 residences contained in low-cost irregular blocks clad in pink brick. They are surrounded by trees and urban development to foster a better standard of living. The development is part of a programme in which government-subsidised lines of credit are offered to residents to enable them to own their own homes.
"The project acknowledges the issue of the impersonal style in housing complexes and the infinite repetition of dwellings of identical characteristics, as opposed to the need of identity and acknowledgement of individuality," the design team said in an article for Dezeen magazine.
For all of the buildings, the team sought to minimise waste and to make use of local technologies, according to the article. The structural system follows a regular grid that results in efficient layouts and offers views to tenants.
