Cuba is a multi family residential building, designed under the concept of stacked houses. The building is located in a 10m wide plot, on a typical neighboardhood in Buenos Aires. The twelve two-storey units are split in two compact blocks.

Each block consists of six apartments, stacked three on three, with the top floor providing terraces and swimming pools to the units on the upper level.

Both buildings are connected by a lightweight steel tower. This solution also provides a pleasing gradation of the entry sequence from the street to the unit's front doors. Residents pass through a shared open court to a vertical circulation tower consisting of a stair-wrapped elevator in lightweight steel, across an open-air bridge, and onto a landing from which the unit doors open

A double screen system was chosen to solve the buildings main façades, one transparent steel grid ahead of another one with big openings. The steel grid with wooden deck floors attached to the building façades acts both as the apartment expansion terraces and as louvers that guarantee filtered natural light and heat control.

Pilotis support the building above the ground. This generates a sense of airiness, and expresses the transmission of loads from cast-in-place concrete partition walls above to a foundation plate below. The service piping system is diverted and hidden within those columns when the lower floor is reached.

Two and three level typologies were designed, with the upper units topped with terraces and individual pools that offer the comfort of a small house inside an apartment building.