2018 MCHAP.emerge
Catalinas Plaza
Adamo-Faden
Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 2016
AUTOR PRINCIPAL
Marcelo Faiden Sebastián Adamo
AUTOR CONTRIBUYENTE
CLIENTE
Consultatio S.A.
FOTÓGRAFO
Javier Agustín Rojas
OBJETIVO
The project assumes these contingencies as a starting point and proposes a system of spatial organization that sees each accident of the ground level as a stimulus capable of influencing its final crystallization. As a result, the pedestrian area and the vegetation surface required by LEED norms melt into a formal system which, projected vertically, characterizes each of the boundaries of the Plaza.
CONTEXTO
This public space is located in one of Catalinas Norte’s edges, an urban enclave of more than fifteen acres between the financial district and Buenos Aires touristic harbor. The irregular geometry of the plot contrasts with the orthogonal footprint of the tower, shaping a surrounding area of undefined identity, drilled by the infraestructural terminals that lays underground.
ACTUACIÓN
On a context characterized by office buildings, where the efficiency of the floor plan and the construction of a recognizable shape are the architecture main arguments, Catalinas Plaza brings back our gaze to the ground, to the public floor, making us remind the urgency of designing project techniques capable of conciliate between overlapped interests.
