The city is a witness of the production of great magnitude artistic events.
I was asked to design a Cultural Center aimed not only for art exhibition but also for art production. I decided to design a building that produces its own art and show it to the community, making visitors participate of the productive process. A flexible building open to public space.
YEAR: 2014
PLACE: UNIVERSITY OF BUENOS AIRES
It is located in an area of big warehouses, factories and markets, in the middle of a residential neighborhood with a commercial zone, in front of an antique fair and a public park.
The morphology of the building follows an industrial typology, and is situated beside a pedestrian block, creating a dry public square between the market and the park.
The Ground floor (1rst level) has a direct entrance from the dry park, used for big expositions, projections and different cultural events.
Underneath the dry square, the audiovisual, editing and photography workshops are located due to their need of low light and sound isolation. Large screens project on the ground floor what is being produced below, giving the possibility of an open cinema and outdoor audiovisual activities.
The building is organized in three levels, a terrace and an underground.
The auditorium and the conference halls that received huge amounts of visitors are located in the ground floor and first floor, together with the workshops that need more space for machine manipulation.
The exhibition rooms are located in the second floor, taking profit of natural light and offering a quite atmosphere for art contemplation.
There is also a rooftop available for massive happenings and urban scale expositions.
Nowadays, events do not have a definite scale. Cities must be prepared not only for mega events but also for small ones. Moreover, the user is the main character of architecture development and art improvement.
This demands architecture to accompany and encourage these cultural changes.
In order to be flexible, the building can adjust its scale according to each event needs. It is a building with a large human-architectural scale, but medium to urban level. Therefore, when it receives giant artistic events, its scale turns out to be a medium building to urban scale.
The section shows how the building is open to public space, and the relation that have with the park and the city.
From the outside, the visitors can see what is going on inside, and feel part of the events.
