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.
Wladimiro Differentiated
240 houses for Avellaneda
Date 2017
Location Buenos Aires, Argentina
Type Competition
Program Housing
Project team Santiago Miret and Melisa Brieva
Around 1960, together with a team of students from the University of Buenos Aires, Wladimiro Acosta designed a group of houses for Maciel Island. The project has three linear strips, one belonging to the bedrooms, another to be dining room and bathroom, and a third for the kitchen, laundry and semi-covered expansion. Acosta proposes a group of houses that are stacked and embedded in order to form semi-covered double-height spaces and large sunshades facing north, in order to shape well-lit spaces outside. The project is presented with a latent potential for differentiation never exploited. The plan does not end up being modular, making its systematization and subsequent differentiation complex.
In order to account for the variety of family groups and the requirement to populate an irregular terrain, the project organizes an initial matrix adaptive to the lot, to then build a differentiation of the pavilion units by means of a modulation of the habitat unit. The project consists of 18 pavilions, which contain 282 homes, divided into groups of 66 homes for 2 people, 108 for 4 people and 108 for 6 people. The ground floors of the pavilions function as commercial spaces, workshops and offices. In their interstices, the pavilions constitute spaces for public exchange, interconnected by a system of continuous paths. In the longer perimeter areas, parking is available.