Suite n3 | notorious

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.

Suite n3

Continuous Differentiation of Potential Behaviors

Date 2019

Location Undetermined

Type Competition

Program Skyscraper

Project team Santiago Miret and Melisa Brieva

Collaborators Mariano Gaindez, Michel Hunziker, Celeste Mourad,

Florencia Feldsberg, Agustín Ros y Camila Gallardo

The behavior of the skyscraper is presented as the one that most aligns with the discipline autonomy. Nothing in his generation depends on a predetermined exterior, lacks transdisciplinary influences. Historically, architectural behaviors have responded to notions or demands referring to contextual constraints (orientation, local culture), humanists (users, customers), programmatic (purpose, internal organization). But the skyscraper tower escapes to these, that is to say, they do not condition their future, but, in any case, feed it; being its raison d'être its modality of differentiation in relation to another skyscraper.

The potential behaviors and its continuous differentiation is what determines the tower in its way of appearing, its style, its internal organization, its structure. All its internal systems (circulation, programmatic organization, services, supporting structure) are the outcome of its potential behavior. For skyscrapers, what determines its forms is how to differentiate itself from others of its kind. This is how the typology of skyscrapers appeal to exclusively disciplinary techniques to consolidate itself as such, being the contextual, cultural, programmatic or humanitarian discourses peripheral to their organization and behavior as an architectural model.