new house next to a dilapidated industrial building on a leafy street in Chacarita, the neighborhood du jour for young Buenos Aires creatives. The slightly shabby “casa chorizo” (a historical style characterized by outdoor hallways) still had its original early-20th-century details. And shopworn as it looked, the single-story structure was solid—plus, at 1,800 square feet, the lot was unusually large. Pato took the leap, bought the building, and called on his old friend Santiago Giusto,
