Aire Y Luz

The "air and light patio" is an element designed by the first Building Code of Buenos Aires (1944) to guarantee minimum ventilation and natural lighting of the interior spaces of a building. Although its normalization and the characters through which it is shaped have varied over time, modifying the gauges that result in different characteristic configurations, its measurement has always been determined by a series of factors common to the terrain of each building, such as its surface, its zoning, its location within the block and the width of the street on which it is located. It is in the combination of these abstract values where the variation of volumes, shapes, sizes, angles and staggering that the city, and these pages, occupies arises.