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.
Science Park
Active surface for the sciences
Date 2014
Location Buenos Aires, Argentina
Type Competition
Program Museum
Project team Santiago Miret and Federico Menichetti
Deleuze gives a name to the idea of continuity that begins in the Baroque, called "fold". Beyond getting into what the author develops in detail and in relation to the folds in matter and in the soul, I consider it fundamental to dwell on the idea of continuity as a feature. An essence that bases its bases in the Baroque. An artistic piece that could be cited to be clear in this regard is the painting of Diego Velázquez of 1656 titled in 1843 as "Las Meninas". In this painting, Velázquez paints a non-traditional camera scene behind the scenes. Here there is no main figure, but relationships between figures. Relational tensions are what build the picture. All the art of the Baroque has been based on this concept. The idea of theatrical staging, the light, the treatment of the dark clearing, the disposition of the characters, everything attentive to the Renaissance idea of the background and figure, of the composition according to the elements. Now the composition will be based on the relationships between the elements.
The proposal for the Science Park is a field of forces that interact in a complex system of closely binding relationships. Like the Baroque, what is important both in the project process and in the final result is the binding relationship between the elements, rather than the elements themselves. Therefore, focus will be on those invisible circumstances that make the abstract to shape the concrete.
