Argentinian artist and designer Edgardo Giménez has created an artist residency in Uruguay referred to as Casa Neptuna that options playful geometry and vibrant colours.
Casa Neptuna includes an elongated one-story construction made from blocks and coated with ornamental sculptural varieties.
It’s situated in José Ignacio, a seaside city in Uruguay, on a residential lot dotted with bushes and was beforehand a residential construction.
Argentinian artist Edgardo Giménez was commissioned by Amalia Amoedo, an artwork collector who based a residency by way of the Ama Amoedo Basis (FAA).
“The residency program and Casa Neptuna had been created concurrently, in steady dialogue and concord,” stated FAA director Verónica Flom.
“In a means, the method of making Casa Neptuna and its outcomes exemplify the aim of our residency program: that artists can have the time, area and freedom to work on their follow,” she advised Dezeen.
“Edgardo needed the home to be an area the place one may be at liberty to encourage inventive considering.”
Casa Neptuna has housing for 2 artists, in addition to a shared studio area, kitchen and customary room.
Choosing native supplies comparable to plaster and brick, Giménez created an envelope made from interconnected geometries. Your complete constructing sits on a platform painted yellow, whereas many of the construction has been painted fluorescent inexperienced.
Above the constructing are a sequence of ornamental sculptural parts, together with two inexperienced arches marking the elongated construction and a sequence of summary shapes within the center painted in yellow, blue and pink.
The brilliant colours replicate the well-known aesthetic of Giménez, who was a member of the Buenos Aires Pop Artwork scene within the 1960s.
“Edgardo Giménez was the one who determined the colours and all facets involving the design of Casa Neptuna,” Flom advised Dezeen.
“From the colours, the repetition of round shapes within the home windows and arches, to his iconic trefoil-shaped door, these are clear examples of his private signature.”
Whereas the outside is vibrant and seems as a chunk of artwork in itself, the interiors are decidedly extra minimal.
The inside is characterised by white partitions and black metallic accents framing the porthole home windows in addition to the studio’s floor-to-ceiling home windows.
Based on Flom, this method was taken to “encourage focus and a extra centered environment” for the artists-in-residence.
Giménez was born in 1942 in Argentina and is understood for his visible artwork, furnishings and style design. He accomplished a lot of different residences in and round Buenos Aires, together with a home referred to as Casa Azul for artwork critics Jorge Romero Brest and Marta Bontempi.
Different constructions which have exteriors with vibrant colours and sculptural varieties embody the summary creations of Bolivian architect Freddy Mamani in La Paz and Javier Senosian’s housing advanced in Mexico, which takes the type of a colourful snake.
The picture is by Cristobal Palma.