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.

Chrysalis

Temporary installation and the rethinking of the dome for the Old City of Montevideo, Uruguay

Date 2015

Location Montevideo, Uruguay.

Type: Workshop

Program Dome

Project design Santiago Miret, Rodrigo Martin and Alejandro Schieda

Coordinator Federico Lagomarsino

Project Team Santiago Paez Revuelta, Elvis Marrero, Luis Blau, Alfredo Ghierra Goyen, Juliana Mansulino, Lucia Sosa, Lucia Borche, Lucía Lin, Lucía De Benedetti Trobo, Ignacio Silva, Fernando Foglino, Paulo Pereyra Luis Flores, Santiago Blau, Myriam Mónica Cervieri, Gabriela Barber Sarasola, GaBy Muniz, Marcelo Paysse, Fernando García Amen, Paola Carretto Frediani,Gonzalo Perez, Simone Cmmlt, Matias Yañez Bravo, Lea Villalba, Tania Pérez Mesones, María Calone Harotoun Chamlian, Federico Vaz, Juan Pablo Portillo Burghi, Ma Eugenia Ferreiro, Sebastian D’alto, Juanpi Martinez, Alcalde Carlos Varela, Fede Waldeck, Daniel Acerenza, Mola Mazo and Carlos Di Matteo

The process consisted of three stages: development of the theoretical concept and discussion of methodological and technical aspects depending on the nonlinearity-parasite relationship, testing and selection of the generative system, and fabrication and installation of the device in place. The device is based on the reformulation of a dome of the XX Century (now demolished) in the Old City of Montevideo, Uruguay. The manufacturing process was carried out by a CNC router and the installation of the device was conducted by major logistics.

The new inhabitant of the Old City of Montevideo is new and old at the same time. Contains in itself the latency of the classical dome, its tectonics and generative form, its directive and generatrices while proposing a new way to consolidate the auction of the classic building. It responds to a contemporary aesthetic, but this aesthetic emerges not from a mimetic stance towards an imaginary zeitgeist but rather with generative logics embedded in the notions of a classical dome while proposing a new use, a new function. A function associated with the social, the community and the urban transformation.