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level provides parking for 10 vehicles.
JujuyRedux o ccupies a corner l ot, and was
developed with t he a im o f revitalizing t he
city of Rosario’s traditional neighbourhood
the area’s historic downtownas well as the Pa-
rana Riverfront, and enjoys “generous street
sizes, large amounts of vegetation, and a low
urban density” – making it the “the ideal en-
vironment” for young families and students.
According to Marcelo, Jujuy Redux “propos-
es a subtle delineated mass, operating both at
the scale of the entire volume and the scale of
each apartment.”
exist with many mid-rise housing typologies,
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formations that play either with the envelope
as detached from the units, or with the units
alone,” he says.
“Atransition frommass to volume, from vol-
ume to surface, induces a visual and physical
distortion at the pedestrian level. More im-
portantly, it enables the weighty appearance
of t he b uilding to s inuously d ematerialize
towards the corner, allowing the social space
par excellence of each apartment to visually
connect with t he p edestrian activity i n the
street below.”