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.
Refined Oil Park
A refinery public park for the productive experience
Date 2017
Location Buenos Aires, Argentina
Type Competition
Program Metropolitan Park
Project team Santiago Miret and Melisa Brieva
Collaborator Martín Zemma
The promises of the 1990s that deal with a digital, immaterial world, where physical relationships and material objects would vanish into an abstract invisible network, face a diametrically opposite reality. Each time we produce more and consume more. As the consumption is increasingly explicit, the world of advertising becomes less and less subliminal. However, architecture turns its back on production protocols. They construct landscape, deploy effects, subsume themselves in self organizations that, in their internal processes of feedback, consolidate as perfect machinic artifacts. They work and they are beautiful, terrifying, complex and vast. There have no place for good intentions, styles or intuitions. These mega-productive atrocities have to serve, that is their only condition of existence.
The objective is the construction of artificial landscapes containing projective ecologies which are coming from the studio of energy production protocols, but in which its aims are culturally broader. A project that operates by letting be-known, and not by denouncing or being reactionary. An architectural organization that can handle heavy machinery as well as heavy nature by the assemblage of the vast ecologies of the late Anthropocene.
