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.
SuperPrecís
SuperMarzio
Supermodels
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Facultad de Arquitectura Diseño y Urbanismo
Carrera de Arquitectura
Sistemas de Representación Geométrica
Cátedra Lencinas
2019
Professors Santiago Miret y Melisa Brieva
Students (SuperPrecís) Gonzalo Albornoz, Francisco Carrillo, Guadalupe Castro, Luciano Cosentino, Ana Inés Cruces, Carlos Galleguillo, Lucía Gelber, Ignacio Gimenez, Gastón López, Valentina Ortega, Camila Sordo, Nicolás Taubas and Martín Vidarrueta
Interns (SuperMarzio) Ana Inés Cruces, Cynthia Solipaca and Malena Masó
These projects, beyond exposing a singular modality of material organization, are there to be instruments of projective learning. Each of them, by exposing its singularity, presents a way of grasping Durand's project as a mode of disciplinary appropriation. They carry the ethics of the lineage, they make it explicit, they want to learn and teach with it. They are obedient disciples as well as radical transgressors. They study the norm and at the same time challenge it by exposing its virtues, as well as its weaknesses. The Superprojects do not revel in their singularity, but rather pursue it in order to aspire to insert it into the disciplinary lineage from which it emerges in the most organic way possible. They do not aspire to difference for the sake of difference itself, but to difference with respect to a supermodel to which, they are aware, they owe their very existence.
Supermodels are not there to be canonized and glorified just because they are complex projects, but they also provide raw material for experimentation and the creation of new approaches to old problems. Issues such as centrality, axiality, the way of supporting large spans, routes, colonnades and the interweaving of directions are just some of the problems that the discipline has always known and knows how to deal with.
Whether it is the problem of raising the largest dome that the Western world has ever raised or the search for a perfect geometric synthesis for the organization of Villas and Maisons, or the difficulty of responding to the demands of a complex world through the architectural implementation of complex geometries and forms of organization, the supermodels of history will be there to shed light on the needs of a discipline that, although it may seem redundant to say so, is more unfathomable than we think.
