Bachelor's Degree Projects
Some of the projects done during my Bachelor's of Architecture Degree
FADU, UBA - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cultural Center
2017
Location: Parque Patricios - Neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Class: Architectural project
Work Time: 4 Months / Individual project
Total Area Project: 3.575 m2
URBAN STRATEGY
Using the proposal made in Urban Project Class, it was chosen to implant the Cultural Center in a block that allowed the creation of a free perimeter building, making it available to access it through different places, thus generating a passing patio-hall and a covered plaza. This place can be used not only by people who go to the building, but throughout the neighborhood as a meeting place, to enhance the intention of a cultural center:
ACCESS FOR ALL AND CULTURE FOR ALL
FUNCTIONAL STRATEGY
The building has three accesses because of the diverse program a Cultural Center has. Three volumes were proposed connected by a hall, which refers to the sheds of the industrial area surrounding the neighborhood. Making the hall a continuation of the plaza that surrounds it, both with the same flooring to emphasize the idea. Each volume represents the programs they have inside and the needs that each program has regarding the ventilation and natural lighting. The functionality chosen for each volume and the articulation of the programs among themselves was decided based on the use by the neighbors: on the ground floor, the location of the most popular programs were chosen, such as the workshops, the gastronomic offer, and access to the auditorium. The programs located on the top floor respond to the need for greater privacy in their use, such as the offices, library and exhibitions, both permanent and temporary. Both levels are connected by a staircase, which was thought of as a sculpture so that it can be viewed from any of the entrances.
Urban Intervention
2017
Location: Parque Patricios - Neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Class: Urban Project
Work Time: 4 Months / Group Project
The proposal aims to carry out a large-scale intervention but without neglecting the impact it generates in the neighborhood. It seeks to recover urban spaces and generate them where there are none. For this, the blocks are consolidated in their municipal lines, generating new buildings with mixed uses. According to the immediate environment, a height limit is defined and the urban morphology is formed.
Where urban barriers are a major obstacle, we propose a change of use, or demolition. For example, idle logistics grounds, to reuse them with cultural, recreational, educational and institutional programs that favor social interaction.
The neighborhood needs to become denser and attract a larger population with sufficient equipment to supply them and consistent public mobility. As well as generating friendlier blocks on the urban pedestrian scale.
Encourage pedestrian activity in the neighborhood and open streets generating the ideal size of blocks.
A link between the new and the existing is constantly being sought, this is our motto, and to further enhance the technological district already established there. Being able to recover valuable buildings, and give quality, category and updating to the spaces that require it.
Urban Planning
2016
Location: Commune 11 (4 Neighborhoods) of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Class: Urban Planning
Work Time: 9 months / Group Project
The project consisted of analyzing in depth the federal capital of Buenos Aires to understand what were the strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats that were there (from the urban point of view).
Then each group was assigned a commune (system that combines several neighborhoods. The Federal capital is subdivided into 15 communes). The one assigned to us was number 11 that includes the neighborhoods of: Villa Devoto, Villa del Parque, Villa Santa Rita and Villa General Mitre.
After analyzing this commune, visiting and photographing it, we were able to realize what it lacked or could be improved to benefit not only those who live in it but to the neighborhoods surrounding it.
Our proposal consisted of:
generate and improve green public spaces
promote new commercial areas to generate more employment
greater participation and citizen integration
solve the fragmentation caused by urban barriers
promote a more sustainable city
encourage the development of educational institutions
To demonstrate that these proposals could be carried out, we made maps, diagrams, graphics, collage showing a before and after situation, and everything that would serve to support and demonstrate that the commune had many possibilities to improve. The final project consisted of 39 pages size A3.
Contemporary Art Museum
2016
Location: La Boca - Neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Class: Architecture IV
Work Time: 4 Months / Individual project
Total Area Project: 3.800 m2
One of the limits of this project are the tracks of a freight train whose use is very limited. That is why it was decided to carry out an open place giving it a square character: relating it to the museum's structural grid, generating a staggering design, creating rest and recreation areas and green spaces that serve as a separation from the train tracks.
The façade presents a horizontally striped concrete texture to visually relate to the neighborhood's textures. Once inside the museum, its development is presented on 3 levels (basement, ground floor and first floor) so as not to exceed the average height of the houses in the neighborhood. These 3 levels are connected through a large void that contains one of the vertical circulations that marks the museum's circulation.
The project tries to make the museum not only a housing containing art works but a meeting place, permanence, and activities that may or may not be related to the museum. In conclusion, to offer the neighborhood to have one more space to share among neighbors with the option of participating in the cultural offers that the museum may grant them.