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.
Total Tower
An insane integrated Total Tower
Date 2017
Location Undetermined
Type Competition
Program Skyscraper
Project team Santiago Miret, Melisa Brieva and Federico Menichetti
Collaborators Esteban Javornik, Milagros Barchi and Gastón Hermida
Iconic, emblematic, unique, representative, meaningful, useless, ostentatious, stupid. Skyscrapers are the building typology of exuberance, one more attempt by mankind to put on display their thirst for hedonism. Perhaps the most bizarre attempt. Undoubtedly, skyscrapers are useless artifacts. They serve no specific cause other than that of representation. A skyscraper identifies a city, a country, a man. It is an icon of something else, however, when the building gains that "something else" thanks to its internal complexity, its original way of appearing, its unique span, its superlative character or, simply, thanks to its ugliness, that skyscraper becomes architecturally significant.
The integration system is based on progressive stages. The first of these is the cataloging of 54 architecturally significant skyscrapers in 5 organizational categories. The first is the category of "branch", which catalogs those towers that branch out one or more of its parts. The second is the category of "blocks", which organizes towers formed by successively stacked blocks. The third and most popular category is the category of "repetition", which groups up towers that tend to repeat their internal organization evenly as they grow in height. The fourth category is called "bunch", precisely because it understands those towers that are grouped in sets or clusters of towers. Finally, the category of "grid" brings together the skyscrapers that are understood as grids extruded in height.