Constructed on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, this is the largest housing project to be built of those designed by the Estudio de Arquitectura. On a total land area of 10 hectares, the complex is designed to accommodate over 19,000 people in low-income housing units; it includes two nursery schools, two primary schools, two high schools, a church, a sanitation facility, various athletic facilities, and a commercial center. Communal services are distributed throughout the site, but the positioning of the commercial center and one of the schools at the intersection of the two streets, along which the seven housing modules are aligned, reinforces this crossing as a central reference point.

Although intended to yield the most efficient circulation schemes and the optimal orientation to the sun for the largest number of units, the design of the housing modules also reflects a deliberate attempt to impose a strongly geometric aesthetic order on the complex. The project’s overall geometric consistency is based on the octagonal plan of the communication towers that link the main housing structures at angles implying a larger octagonal array. None of the seven modules is a complete octagon, however, as varying numbers of the virtual sides remain unbuilt. The towers also contain elevators and stairways and are topped by funnel-shaped water tanks that supply a gravity-fed distribution system. Within each module’s outer ring stand lower-rise structures, similarly articulated and connected to it via terrace-bridges that serve as communal gathering places (a motif evoking, among other designs, that for the Federal Capital Housing Complex). At the center of each modular cluster is a landscaped garden. The visual coherence of the complex is further enhanced by the walkways cutting through the ground-floor walls of both the taller exterior buildings and the lower interior ones.