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.
Multilayered Square
An active multi skyscraper that responds to programs and activities of squares all around the world
Date 2016
Location Buenos Aires, Argentina
Type Competition
Program Skyscraper
Project team Santiago Miret, Melisa Brieva and Federico Menichetti
Collaborator Gastón Hermida
The Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires City is a multi-activity surface. Historically, that square was witness to commercial activities and important political events. In June 11, 1580 Buenos Aires founder, Juan de Garay, established there the symbol of justice. It exists since 1884, but many years before that, in 1816, the Argentinean Independence was declared in that same place, six years after the revolution, which was developed there too, on May 25, giving name to the plaza. Every president was welcomed and farewelled there. Although the square changed over time, it always presented a problem due to the great amount of activities that are developed there every day. Today, the scheme of the square is a generic one. Symmetrical, undifferentiated, homogeneous, impartial. This generic scheme represents an opportunity to explode its potentialities.
Multilayered Square is an active multi-surface that responds to a variety of different programs and activities not only of the Plaza de Mayo specifically, but also of squares all around the world. We can consider The Yokohama Port Terminal as a transport square, or the Mecca as the religious square by excellence. But also we can find governmental squares such as Piazza del Campidoglio, or popular ones like Piazza Navona. In this sense, The Multilayered Square does not pretend to replicate them, but to differentiate the generic scheme of the square producing subsidiary and new activities as an emergence of the project´s process.