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.
Air Performer
Date 2015
Location El Chalten, Santa Cruz, Argentina
Type Competition
Program Museum
Project team Santiago Miret, Federico Meninchetti, Melisa Brieva and Luciano Brina
Illuminism gathers Architecture to establish a continuity with the Classic, which conceptually implies the possibility and the necessity to control nature. By means of mathematics, men found itself capable of dominating the vast and indomitable natural landscape. Since medieval fortified cities, through 17th century French palaces, to Palladian villas, Architecture has served as conqueror refugee upon the savage, overflowing natural realm.
The project establishes a connection with nature by merging itself into it and reinterpreting the invisible strata of natural phenomena by making it tangible. It is no longer about contemplating nature from a crystal capsule, but to experience it. By means of an articulated stereo-structure, Air Performer modifies its form according to wind conditions, translating this phenomena into an experience of the individual over nature. This is about an experimental and phenomenological experiment that approximates to the notion of natural phenomena. In this case, the individual goes through the experience and crosses the natural event. Reflexes, shadows and movement are the outputs of a performative architectural system that focus on the capacity to translate into form what is formless, i.e. the wind.
