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In the infinite pampas, the design of details Famed Argentine Polo Player creates his own Polo Stables just outside of Buenos Aires City By: Jimena Martignoni The Figueras Polo Stables designed by Estudio Ramos are located to the northwest of the City of Buenos Aires, in a rural area where the horizon always appears unreachable, almost as a mirage, and where silence prevails. The vastness of the existing landscape, which is that of the infinite pampas, becomes both the perfect natural scenario for the practice of Polo (a key constituent of the Argentinean culture and a niche sport in most parts of the world) and the very essence of the design. The poetic horizontality of the local flatlands seems to be emulated with every aspect of the enclosing and conceptual plan and with every built piece of the building. The lines of the roofs of the two volumes, which from afar look
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as one single composition, the linearity of the freestanding walls that outline intimate gardens in front of the social areas and, especially, the manner in which the architectural layout surrendered to the existing tree planting, strengthens the fascinating sense of infinity of this typical region of extensive farmlands. In the past, the area destined to polo fields and stables exhibited a green avenue consistently planted with large and luxuriant London plane trees, which turned into the origin of the conceptual design. This linear presence marks part of the project’s itinerary including the walking circuits for horses, and it was also used as a condition for the building’s formal articulation. Differentiated in
