The project is articulated through a central space providing access to eight lots where each individual house is located, proposing the possibility of creating a suburban community environment with shared outdoor spaces while maintaining independence and privacy in relation to others.
The space between volumes serves as a mediator between architecture and nature, between the collective and the individual. The boundaries between this central space and the houses are materialized with a low wall supporting a green living fence, reproducing the fronts of the houses in the english neighborhood where wide streets and landscaped sidewalks blend with the gardens of the houses, blurring the lines between individual and collective.
Entirely austere, realized in brick and painted white, the houses are dispersed among the gardens with pure volumes that are perceived around their entire perimeter, but which orient their main rooms towards the north. Therefore, a neighborhood identity is constructed based on the grouping and establishment of a common language for all units.
To preserve privacy, each house directs its main living spaces towards its own courtyard, which aligns with the north, the best orientation in the Southern Hemisphere. The common spaces of the house are located on the ground floor, while the intimate sector is developed on the upper floor, opening on its longest side towards the private courtyard with glass panels, thus capturing the best orientation.