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.
Saldías Noodle
Date 2023
Location Buenos Aires, Argentina
Type Competition
Program Cultural Center
Project team Santiago Miret and Melisa Brieva
Collaborators Lucía Escobar y Patricio Troncoso
The project proposes an elevated park, beneath which a Cultural Center is deployed. In continuity with the Saldías Cultural Pole on San Pedro de Jujuy Street, the proposal aims to reactivate a sector of the City of Buenos Aires with great potential given its connectivity and link with the coastal edge of the Río de la Plata. Likewise, the urban proposal seeks to generate links with the Costa Salguero Park to the North and the Costa Urbana Park to the South, two young ventures in the City that seek to recover the edge of the River and consolidate an increasingly continuous coastal walk.
The highway layouts conspire against the connection of the city with the river, so the Saldías Cultural District seeks to encourage an urban and pedestrian connection between the city to the west and the edge of the river to the east. For this, the proposal includes the incorporation of new bus stops that allow public access in a more agile way, while on the Palermo neighborhood side, the integration of train stations that combines the Miter line with the San Martín line.
