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.
Vitruvius´ House
Processes of a villa for XXI century Vitruvius
Date 2015
Location Undetermined
Type Competition
Program House
Project team Santiago Miret, Federico Meninchetti and Melisa Brieva
According to Rudolf Wittkower, Andrea Palladio had develop a generative project system that allowed him to design his villas based on a nine square grid. The homogeneous space that resulted from Palladio´s project system was not revolutionary, but the way of producing family variations was. Thus, Palladio was inaugurating the single family home topic in the discipline and also he was inventing the heuristic project.
The project emerges from the stochastic test of the activities variability, in this sense it does not focuses on specific functionality but on the possibility of relationship between activities. Then, the emergent diagram is adjusted to a tectonic and a way of appear (actualization of the diagram). The objective is to build an overcome critic of the rigid classic structure (Palladio), the restricted functionalist focus of the modernists (Le Corbusier) and the syntactic post-modern critic (Eisenman) in order to produce a project for the contemporary house that responds to the exigencies of the Vitruvian triad (Utilitas, Firmitas, Venustas) and, at the same time, realizes the habitat modes that results from the contemporary activities of living.
