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.
City Reanimator
A skyscraper to rethink the post-apocalyptic scenario of a flooded world
Date 2015
Location Athens, Greece
Type Competition
Program Skyscraper
Project team Santiago Miret, Federico Meninchetti, Melisa Brieva and Luciano Brina
Disaster! The great polar ice masses had melted. The most important countries in the world did not take action and did not change the way they´ve been producing energy. Capital cities of the planet are flooded. Athens, New York, Tokyo, London, Buenos Aires and Rio are just a few examples of metropolis that are now underwater. Sustainability programs had failed, desperate measures came too late. Humanity and its history is now under the sea.
The City Reanimator Project is an opportunity to recover the history, tradition and culture of cities. A diagrammatic generative process that interacts directly with urban morphological and geological substrates and traces, restoring commerce routes, traffic paths, historical places, told and untold stories of our eternal cities. City Reanimator is a new chance for humanity to regain history through a process that remaps circulation and built information from cities all around the globe and project them into the third dimension over the sea and beyond oblivion.
