The building is structured as a central organization, whose programmatic core is the auditorium, and which, mediated by a circulatory bellows, deploys leisure and educational programs on the perimeter. The public programs of general access deploys in the outer ring of the ground floor, towards the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood, the access, the bar and the library, with semi-covered areas extend the programs to the exterior.
The exhibition areas, both covered and semi-covered, are located towards the Ecological Reserve. Located in the center of the building, the auditorium has a permeable perimeter enclosure system that can be opened expanding its spatiality, extending its interior to the spaces of the entrance hall, the library and the exhibition hall. This modality enhances the use of the auditorium and makes a dynamic space that supports multiple uses even more flexible and expandable.
The building generates series of expansions both on the ground floor and on the top floor. The expansions are understood as extensions of the quality of the interior space in semi-covered and uncovered spaces. In the case of the library, the expansion is the connection with the bar, giving the possibility of the appearance of a hybrid space where the activities of both programs can be integrated.
The building is structured as a central organization, whose programmatic core is the auditorium, and which, mediated by a circulatory bellows, deploys leisure and educational programs on the perimeter. The public programs of general access deploys in the outer ring of the ground floor, towards the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood, the access, the bar and the library, with semi-covered areas extend the programs to the exterior.
The exhibition areas, both covered and semi-covered, are located towards the Ecological Reserve. Located in the center of the building, the auditorium has a permeable perimeter enclosure system that can be opened expanding its spatiality, extending its interior to the spaces of the entrance hall, the library and the exhibition hall. This modality enhances the use of the auditorium and makes a dynamic space that supports multiple uses even more flexible and expandable.
The building generates series of expansions both on the ground floor and on the top floor. The expansions are understood as extensions of the quality of the interior space in semi-covered and uncovered spaces. In the case of the library, the expansion is the connection with the bar, giving the possibility of the appearance of a hybrid space where the activities of both programs can be integrated.
1000 Houses
Differentiated pattern system for a social housing project in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Date 2016
Location Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Type Competition
Program Housing
Project team Santiago Miret, Melisa Brieva and Federico Meninchetti
The project organizes a modular system of parallel bars. This allows an efficient and equitable distribution of the units and circulatory system for each consortium. In the open patios between bars, the semi-covered circulatory system and the accesses are positioned. It is sought through the optimization of circulatory and common spaces, to increase the expansions of each house so that each family can count on their private outdoor space. At the same time, this expansion of generous dimensions contemplates laundry washing and drying activities. Envelopes were studied in a way that in addition to granting their function of enclosure, they grant identity and interest to the whole in their relation with the urban space. The intention is to generate a formally clear and precise set, with its own image, in which the possibilities of each unit to access the best interior.
