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.
Productive Landscapes
2019
Santiago Miret y Melisa Brieva
Collaborator Belén Iliev
Energy production protocols are the new global landscapes. This research calls for them for architecture, under the hypothesis that architecture has the power to organize ecologies, both natural and artificial, bringing them together, not one serving the other, or attacking each other, but constituting conglomerates that are impossible to discriminate. This integration must overcome the moralistic approach of romantic ideals of nature.
Contemporary ecologies are made up of production and destruction, organic material and machinery. Synchronicity, excessive extension, hermeticity, violent concentration of energy, are values that landscape and mass production share. Through them, the emergence of new non-binary models is possible.
The objective of the study is the construction of artificial landscapes that contain projective ecologies derived from the study of energy production protocols, but whose objectives are much broader. The ultimate goal is the creation of a projective landscape that recognizes a contemporary discussion where the relationship between the natural and the artificial, as well as production and destruction, can be restarted. In this sense, the architectural project can argue with global production conglomerates and corporations, as well as with metropolitan governments. It is a project that operates by unveiling, and not by denouncing or being reactionary. An architectural organization that can handle heavy machinery and heavy nature, thanks to the vast ecologies of the late Anthropocene.
























