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How do you make a house feel open and light when you build right up to the boundary line using your neighbour’s walls as two of your own? In a city like Buenos Aires, where space is at a premium its crazy not to take up every spare square inch, so what’s the solution?
Well for starters, you take the plunge and devote a significant amount of your precious 7 m x 14 m plot and give it over to external living space, or courtyards in this case. Clara House, located in Caballito, Argentina, designed by Tovo Sarmiento Arquitectos, have cleverly accessed natural light by strategically placing courtyards on either side of their cuboid house. Filling the outside spaces with plants and luscious vegetation, some of which winds its way up the exterior walls, gives the project a grounded, lived-in feeling. The rooms facing onto these courtyards have been treated with full height glazed doors, with oversized black metal frames, capable of sliding completely open. The large glazed doors flood the interior with bright sunlight.
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