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ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
AGUSTIN MAURO Universidad Católica de Cordoba, Argentina. BA | 2020 selected works
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AGUSTÍN MAURO SENESTRARI 87020 Via Palmiro Togliatti SC San Nicola Arcella. Cosenza. Italy
11.03.1998 (23) agustinmauro1@gmail.com +(54) 351 3537319
Personal Statement The designs I develop celebrate the work of materials, subtle contrasts, and elaborate details. I have a keen interest in modern design, local materials, and projecting environment-friendly proposals where vegetation and the surrounding environment come together with the interior spaces. I like to think of projects as unique new challenges, inspired by their locations and the functional patterns to which they must respond. I use a minimalist palette of details, inspired by the site and the natural environment. Skills summary Design.
I AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Vray, Lumion, Adobe Programs
Fabrication. I CYPE engineering, Hand drafting / modeling
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Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Argentina Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS) - academic achievement. final cumulative average - 9,10/10
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Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, España Semester program at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura y Edificación (ETSAE). UPCT
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St. Patrick’s Bilingual School. Córdoba, Argentina University of New South Wales Advanced English Program. Sidney, Australia (Sept. - Oct. 2014) Exchange program at Lycee et College Lafayette. Brioude, France (Dec. - Feb. 2015)
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Language studies | Spanish (native) - English (fluent) - French (fluent) - German (intermediate) - Italian (intermediate).
Relevant experience + S. 2020 Roveasargiotti Architects I Cordoba, Argentina. (July 2020 - present) Junior partner and architectural designer Worked on ensuring the feasibility of building designs by using computer aided drafting, and working on different aspects of the projects with the principal architect and design team, done through Revit / AutoCAD, Sketchup, Lumion and Photoshop.
Architecture: - Bajadita Green Tower. Residential highrise building. La Plata, Argentina. - Loggia Maldonado. Cordoba, Argentina.
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87100 Architetti Associati I Cosenza, Italia. (November - January) Junior architectural designer Lead project designer on 'Cosenza Housing' project. Developed 3d models in SketchUp of existing buildings and new proposals.
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Arq & Co. I Cordoba, Argentina. (February - September) Junior architectural designer Developed interior concept and presentation for interior design renovations to produce photo-realistic renders and diagrams. Accelerated client and contractor meetings by adding 3d models and visual features to new projects proposals.
+ S. 2021 Graduate teaching assistant at university. I Cordoba, Argentina. (2021-present) UCC Chairs of - Thesis Project / Social Housing Issue (PSH) / Introduction to Design and Creative Thinking Assist professors giving undergraduates a closer instructional attention + gaining valuable profesional and knowledge experience.
Competitions + achievements + 2021
Rawson´s New Administrative Centre. Chubut, Arg.
- Together with RSA
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Quilmes Brewery New Headquarters. Buenos Aires, Arg.
- Together with RSA
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Urban requalification of Abasto District - University competition
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Workshop TECHO. Housing prototype for emergencies
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Public Media Library ‘El Posito’
- University competition
Second prize
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Light, Materia and Space - University competition
Second prize
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Urban strategies: requalification for the city of Cordoba With professors and students from the University of Florence, Italy.
Honourable Mention
Second prize
- University workshop
- University workshop
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Selected Projects
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Del Lleno al Vacio UCC Graduate School of Architecture. Cordoba, Argentina. Thesis Project
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Leisure on the coast UPCT ETSAE. Cartagena, España. Project Workshop VI
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Closing the cloister UCC Graduate School of Architecture. Cordoba, Argentina. Project Workshop V
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La Bajadita Green Tower RSA Architects. Cordoba, Argentina.
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Rawson's New Administrative Centre Competition + RSA Architects. Chubut, Argentina.
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Quilmes' Brewery New Headquarters Competition + RSA Architects. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Photography
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Del Lleno al Vacio
Paseo Recreativo Molino Rio de La Plata UCC Graduate School of Architecture Thesis Project 2020 Type. Cultural Centre Site. Cordoba, Argentina
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8 | PART I
A new spatial contract Bonding through heritage The site is located on the banks of the Suquía River, in the city of Córdoba, Argentina. We live in a city that is about 400 years old, which has countless buildings of high historical and architectural value, but which nevertheless has found a way to turn its back on one of its most important heritage sites: its river. This project is a prototype for a new spatial contract between the city and the Suquia River, which argues for the recovery of resilient buildings as new connectors of the urban scope, seeking to further explore this threshold space and its different possibilities of materialization.
MANIFESTO | 9
Le 'Moulin' Empaqueté - eyes back on the long forgotten The former Río de la Plata Mill, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is an abandoned building located at the intersection of two main city axes: the Suquía River and the railroad tracks, close to the urban center. Voids are now presented as promises, spaces of infinite possibilities: the project aims to recover this long forgotten urban ruin with a program of cultural activities, at the same time proposing a new connection with the Suquía River. This connection shall not be barely visual, but an experience that reimagines the site as a vital physical, social, and cultural catalyst that can unite, rather than divide the city of Cordoba.
Understanding attitudes upon heritage intervenience. 01. The shipbuilding of Argos preservation and changes with the same building materials. 02. Yale, Louis Kahn enhancing the preexisting with new technologies. 03. Cuzco making a clean sweep over something preceding.
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New river bank
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interior garden
MAIN SECTION | 11
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low-level crossing
entrance to parking lot
public civic square
Connecting through heritage Section a-a esc. 1:500
Challenging the history of infrastructure as a divisive element and evolving the idea of infrastructure to become one of civic structure, the esplanade that runs through the building guides pedestrians towards the main entrance,
Connecting through heritage Section b-b esc. 1:500
giving them the choice of entering the Mill or going through it and reaching the new Suquia's river bank 0
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12 | MAIN SECTION Blurring Limits Architecture of Transitions The project redefines the transition between outside and inside, blurring the limits of interior space, therefore creating an atmosphere of true connection with its surroundings: a true public building that extends inward the concept of public space and the multiple functionalities of the city. Spatially, circulation plays a central role: the esplanade positions itself as the project's protagonist. It, indeed, can help generate encounters and instances for socialization among the users as well as with the immediate surroundings at large. Floor Plants materialize the presence of people and their unpredictable use of this hybrid and open space. This project stems from the belief that mixed-use buildings are the key to strong urban communities: they open up space, favor interaction, and create unexpected synergy. People can meet even when they are not heading the same way. Actual urban state
Proposal
PROGRAM MATRIX | 13
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Floor level +19.00m esc. 1:500 Cafe / Restaurant, city view point. The new slab edges finish about 60cm before reaching the brick wall. This decision is recognized as a gesture of respect towards the pre-existing, drawing a distinction between the new and the old parts of the building.
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esc. 1:500 Exhibitions, co-working, media library, production labs, workshops.
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Ground level / 0.00m esc. 1:500 Second entrance, temporary exhibitions, administration, coffee shop, Emilio Olmos Green Park.
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Underground level / -5.00m esc. 1:500 Esplanade Civic Square, main entrance, administration, auditorium, Garden Hall, restaurant, services.
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PUBLIC ESPLANADE | 15
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Media Library // Level + 4.20
Main entrance // Level - 5.00
Central Isle // Level + 8.40
Hybrid spaces The post-digital era requires the built environment to become more agile, malleable, and adaptive to change. In this way, the system of hanging fabrics with rails allows them to be lowered or raised, a proposal that proactively curates spatial, temporal, and technological processes that reach beyond form and create novel identities responding to the complexity and unpredictability of our planet. At the same time, the necessity of social distancing brought forth by Covid-19 points to the need for new forms of flexibility and togetherness. As such, this sectorization system offers varied configurations of programmatic adaptability that allow for total cohesion or relative autonomy for the various segments of the building. Exposition Room // Level + 8.40
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVES | 17
N.P.T. +18.70
N.CR.+16.20
N.P.T. +12.60
N.Vent +9.40
N.P.T. +8.40
N.P.T. +4.20
N.CR. +3.15
N.P.T. ±0.00
N.P.T. -2.80
N.P.T. -5.00
City view point walkway // Level + 19.00
Facade Section // esc. 1:200
18 | PROGRAM SUBDIVISION
01. Hanging Fabrics
02. Strechable self standing paper partition
03. Folding walls
04. Opaque and transparent cubicles
05. Mobile scaffolds
New forms of togetherness Exploration models with proposals for the internal programmatic subdivision, showcasing shared, ambiguous spaces that provide opportunities for extending the perceptual and behavioral boundaries of individual units.
FACADE ELEVATION | 19
Emilio Olmos Av. Green Park + secondary entrance // Ground Level
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"Mother of pearl" The project seeks to preserve the symbolic and historical value that the façade of the Mill represents for the city of Córdoba. Therefore, just like pearl oysters, it is given the role of outer-shell, that encloses and circumscribes the new proposal that takes place inside.
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Exploration models The floors containing the interior program rise above the esplanade that crosses the mill as if they were overlapping rectangular partitions from this one, new elevations of the sidewalk covered by the building's facade, which function as trays for the programs they hold.
FACADE AND SECTION | 21
Can architecture help people reconnect with nature?
East facade elevation// esc. 1:350
The project highlights the potential of new urban and social equipment to reconcile the division between the city and its borders, embracing at the same time the environmental consciousness of the new generation.
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Putting joy back into sharing space The new Paseo Recreativo makes more room in cities while putting joy back into sharing space. Inside, several programs are integrated so as to mix functions and age groups.
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Ocio en el Litoral Market.LAB
UPCT Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura y Edificación Project Workshop VI 2020 Type. Public Market and Leisure Centre Site. La Manga del Mar Menor, Murcia. España
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Ocio en el Litoral - Leisure on the coast the public squares of the 21st century. La Manga is a seaside spit of Mar Menor in the Region of Murcia, Spain. The strip is 21 km long and 100 metres wide, separating the Mediterranean Sea from the Mar Menor lagoon. After the tourist boom of the 20th century, large constructions gradually began to populate the territory considering its strategic position between two seas. This project experiments with the traditional concept of 'restaurant', breaking with its canon to project a hybrid and flexible space that encourages the inhabitants of La Manga to live new experiences of entertainment. Therefore, the proposal is conceived not only as a commercial space but also as a community space and a tool for a larger social integration, that at the same time tackles up some of the long-lasting urban issues that emerged from the fast and unorganized construction of tourist complexes: the loss of connection with the surrounding natural environment and the appearance of impermeable pedestrian corridors.
beach sports
-25 gastronomy
shopping
night life
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hotels 25-35
gastronomy
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parks
+30d clubs
15-30d
sports
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nature
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culture
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age group
urban equipment
lenght of stay
SECTOR PLANIMETRY | 25
An urban manifesto The project takes a critical position towards the tendency of developing in-closed housing and vacation complexes circumscribed in high dividing walls that fragment the urban space, leaving narrow corridors for pedestrian access to the sea.
26 | PROJECTS LEGACY
Raise to release Enlarging the sidewalk Raising the building from level 0 encourages a new alternative to how boundaries can be conceived to encourage and promote better relations between people and the coastline, giving back at the same time space to the city for public encounters.
PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION | 27
01.GF Public square 4x6 tree fabric
02.GF flexible programs urban market / fair
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04.+10.00m food and sales stands, restaurants, coffee shops, cooking classes
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05. +19.50m exterior terrace + sea view point
28 | GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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area. 675sqm
In the center of the plaza, four rows of six deciduous trees cast shade so that pedestrians can find shelter from the strong summer sun. On the central axis a small unevenness collects rainwater making the effect of a water mirror reflecting the sky: a strip of ocean inviting pedestrians in.
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The concrete partitions of the ground floor support level +10.00 where the program unfolds in four sections around the central void, with its internal facade facing the square and the external one towards the entire city. Food and sales stands, cafes, restaurants, cooking classes and learning spaces are some of the proposed activities.
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Collage exploration // Level + 10.00m
Market stands // Level + 10.00m
Inviting the ocean inside A gallery of mirrors The interior of the building explores how materials and technologies allow us to propose new ways of connecting people with the exterior environment.The sales stands that make up the indoor market are covered with mirror plates that allow, through their successive reflections, to immerse people and wet their feet with the salt water of the Mediterranean. Ultimately, they elevate materials and methods of construction into new poetics of inhabitation and space appropriation.
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section d-d. Market stands area
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section c-c. Kitchen, restaurant and sitting area esc. 1:700
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34 | INTERIOR-EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVES
4x6 tree fabric + public square // Ground level
Outdoor terrace + sea viewpoint // Level + 19.50m
Market stands // Level + 10.00m
Poetic-built logic The concept of mirage takes a leading role in the project, together with its construction techniques. They give place to the possibility of letting surroundings weave in and out of the building, blurring the boundaries between architecture and exterior space, submerging users in a new gastronomic experience. People and the Sea are here invited to be closer together through an indirect bonding made possible by the materials that compose the interior space of the building.
Market stands // Level + 10.00m
CONSTRUCTIVE AXONOMETRY | 35
Constructive strategy Such visual and spatial permeability would not be possible without the structure that shapes the building. From the beginning, the structure was designed to act as a vierendeel beam, allowing it to have long distanced supports, which gives place to the open floor plan at the ground level and allows to raise the programmatic tray to reach the sea views.
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Closing the Cloister
Renovation of the Holy Family Institute UCC Graduate School of Architecture Project Workshop IV - together with Maria Angeles Adorati and Maria Belen Monti Type. Educational establishment Site. Cordoba, Argentina
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38 | MANIFESTO Central Void Building up space for education The renovation of the Holy Family Institute addresses the architecture of the new learning establishments and the adaptation to a pre-existing building. It explores physical environments where teenagers belong to a highly inclusive, evolving community of peers learning together while providing a constructive solution to a building victim of successive interventions lacking a unique sense of connection. The school is located east of the city of Córdoba, in the General Pueyrredón neighborhood. The institute today presents itself as a fragmented volume, a sum of individual units with no correlation…a true reflection of the surrounding urban fabric.
MANIFESTO | 39
Project models Space is opened up by getting rid of the decaying and deteriorating constructions and then recovering the central void by completing the missing L of the building, continuing the original intention of the project. The covering skin of the new west façade extends covering the two remaining pre-existing facades (south and east), arranging behind it an exterior perimetral circulation and giving the institute a uniform image.
Current building status
Cleaning status
Completition status
Building's new exterior facade
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Geometric studies The diagrams reflect the iterations and possibilities of intervening within the pre-existing geometry, the relationship between new and old forms, their intersections and the resulting spaces. The juxtaposition of the forms defines the lines that delimit the different sectors.
DESIGN PROCESS | 41
central courtyard inward expansion
current building status
module flexibility
horizontal and vertical circulation
walls and sectors to demolish
A new project matrix The new scheme of the building finds its origin in the concept of flexibility, for which a new functional and programmatic matrix is proposed, one that allows it to respond to the new needs of education in the 21st century.
classroom wings / central common axis
It aims to break down the concept of school as the sum of individual enclosed units, lacking of green and common
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spaces, with long and narrow corridors located between two blind walls.
42 | PART II
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The program is organized around a new large central courtyard that functions as a green space for the dispersion of students. At the same time, the kindergarten sector is relocated to the new west wing, offering the youngest open, flexible and organic study-places that respond to their psycho-pedagogical needs.
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LAYOUT | 43
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The integrated interior includes flexible learning boxes, mobile and floating workstations, bleacher spaces and vegetation brought to the inside of the building: physical reflections of the pedagogical platform. Classroom enclosures offer openness or intimacy as necessary, and numerous informal vivid spaces arise for teachers and students to meet and work together.
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The new and the old, the meeting of the two facades // Level + 8.00m
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVES | 47 Learning to learn, live, and work together Various windows and skylights allow students to learn and work in a space immersed in natural light. These windows also resolve the encounters between the new section of building and the pre-existing one, where a strip of light enters and separates both sectors.
01. Exploded axonometric Primary sector corridor // Level + 4.00m
- New west wing - Kindergarten and primary school.
02. Exploded axonometric - Renovated old east wing - Secondary school. Primary sector // Level + 4.00m
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Central courtyard + new west wing // Ground level
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Dry patio - separation from the party wall // Ground level
Exterior perimeter circulation behind facade // Level +4.00
Recovering a tradition from the past Cloister arrangement is not a periclited system (intelligent architectural ideas do not expire) but one that it can preserve an attractive validity when it comes to organising space: in this case it gives way to the main courtyard which becomes the space-protagonist, big enough to let vegetation grow within its borders. It is the entry of natural light, the circulation, the voids, the enclosures and the furniture what allows the project to achieve the flexibility that characterizes the final result. Flying paper sheets in the images stand for the open and flexible space sought in the new educational facilities of the 21st century.
50 | EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVES
Professional projects and competitions RSA internship
Location. Cordoba, Argentina Job title: Junior partner and architectural designer Duration: Since 2020
EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVES | 51
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31st street view
PROJECT DESCRIPTION | 53
'La Bajadita' Green Tower La Plata, Buenos Aires. Argentina.
To be constructed Work team: RSA architects + Sebastian Martinez Villada and Mariana Larcamon Involvement phase: design development Personal tasks: - Intensively studied and iterated design options for the building 's facade, terrace and apartments inner distribution, building up 3d models in sketchup that could be used to make project-based decisions. - Developed interior - exterior concept and presentation for several design proposals, producing photo-realistic renders and diagrams later used for the official branding and project’s propaganda. - Accelerated client and contractor meetings by adding 3d models and visual features to new project proposals.
Project description: La Bajadita Green Tower seeks to boost a unique proposal oriented to modern urban life putting in value the surrounding environment and community-based housing models that enhance residents' interrelationships, prioritizing security and peace while attending the marked tendency of spending more time at home. The project unfolds on a 1440 square meter lot, with a total construction area of about 10,000 square meters, between covered and semi-covered areas, distributed in 72 apartments of between 60 and 110 square meters each. Almost 25% of the floor area of La Bajadita is given over to common spaces, in contrast to conventional multifamily buildings, where a ratio of 10% is typically calculated and limited to the spaces required to provide shared facilities and a route from the door of each house to the street. Project’s website: https://bajaditagreentower.ar/
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31st street "Pocket Garden"
Terrace barbecue sector
PROJECT LAYOUT | 55
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Living in a world of COVID.19
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The pandemic hardly left a stone unturned. Being obliged to adopt a way of living within a limited radius, minimal contacts and the incapability of going outdoors definitely shook the foundations of housing concepts in architecture, bringing back the attention to the relationship between interior and exterior, built environment and nature, work, study and living.
56 | COMMUNITY LIFE
Terrace garden sector
Community life - new ways of living together The building is equipped with several meeting places where relationships between residents can be strengthened, and work as a threshold between the outdoor public space and the intimacy of the home. These community spaces improve efficiency, ensuring that certain infrastructural elements do not have to be multiplied across all 72 homes, but can instead be centralized, improving economic and environmental sustainability.
Housing unit - Typology A 12 to 92 (108,97m2)
Housing unit - Typology B 11 to 91 (87,21m2)
HOUSING UNITS | 57
Upper terrace pool sector
Housing units The building proposes four alternatives of housing units on both sides of the central void, all with direct access to an exterior balcony with vegetation. These social units embrace contemporary ways of living while still reflecting alternative family forms, allowing alterations in the functional distribution of the house and the possibility of closing spaces to turn them into individual units.
Housing unit - Typology C 13 to 93 (75,37m2)
Housing unit - Typology D 14 to 94 (63,35m2)
58 | PART I
Rawson's New Administrative Centre Rawson Green Capital
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out of program
Rawson, Chubut. Argentina.
Competition. Honourable Mention out-of-program Work team: Ricardo Sargiotti, Maria Rovea Aguirre, Agustin Mauro, Franco Frisicaro, Daniela Lauandos, Maria Leguizamon, Lucia Salazar. The purpose of this project transcends the design of an isolated Administrative Center for the city of Rawson, capital of the province of Chubut, and suggests using the same resources to reinvent the city in the face of imminent contemporary challenges, placing Rawson and its region as a role-model for cities intervention and development, and a component of a broader geographical, ecological and economic system. For this reason, the proposal is given a different name from the one dictated by the contest regulations "Rawson Green Capital" The project's scheme can be summarized in the following topics: 1. Urban Architecture and Resilience instead of new buildings disconnected from the urban fabric. 2. Promotion of green spaces and existing infrastructures as public spaces. 3. A new Patagonia-Atlántico cycle-tourism network.
"Please don't leave the city empty"
COMPETITION MANIFESTO | 59
Global scale Argentina
Territorial scale Patagonia
Regional scale Province of Chubut
Sustainability: Mode d'emploi. This Project understands the concept of sustainability in all its complexity, as a framework that shapes each and every one of its decisions, avoiding fast and shallow media (-tic) oriented actions to focus on measures of real and lasting impact on the city...that is to say, about life in society and the environment. sqm construction cost: 900 USD Rawson's New Administrative Centre: 33.297m2 (competition bases) Rawson's New Administrative Centre construction costs:
30.000.000 USD approx.
Urban scale City of Rawson
60 | METROPOLITAN SCALE
Playa Union
Rawson
Trelew
Gaiman
New cycling tour "Patagonia - Atlantico". Connecting rawson on a territorial scale
URBAN SCALE | 61 Rawson's new Administrative Centre - Green Spot. Program distribution.
New covered grandstand over existing stadium
Covered recreational spaces New running track. (first in the region)
Indoor gym
New wooden pedestrian bridges Free use Sightseeing Camping
Indoor olympic pool
Germinal Athletic Club
Rowing space Club Bigornia expansion
International Center for Outdoor Events Children's square
Rawson's Green Centre Green Rawson
Reordering and improvement of Tennis and Hockey courts New grandstand, rugby pitch
Bigornia Club
62 | URBAN SCALE
Project Lab An urban re-distribution
Urban Architecture and Resilience. At an urban scale, the administrative areas (requested in the competition bases to be located inside the lot of Rawson’s Green Spot) are instead placed inside a consolidated urban fabric, whether in new ad hoc constructions or by recycling abandoned buildings. In this way, construction stages can be easily controlled according to particular demands, and these locations can help reactivate deserted areas of the city, thus giving life and density to the capital city of Rawson. In the proposal, icons of well-known architectural projects were used with the intention of demonstrating that each new intervention would give the possibility of enriching Rawson's urban heritage with micro architecture competitions. "Micro" does not describe physical size but relativity among programs, perceptions, and contexts. By focusing on the smallest common denominator, Micro-Urbanism proposes solutions that mediate the small details and the big picture. Understanding the relations of hierarchy, recombination, and interconnection among groups and their components reveals their critical issues and potentials.
ARCHITECTURE SCALE | 63
01. Min. of Agriculture, Livestock, Industry and Commerce + Hydrocarbons
07. Ministry of Health
02. Ministry of Government and Justice + Secretaries of state
08. Ministry of Environment and Control of Sustainable Development
03. Ministry of Education
09. Ministry of Social Development, Family and Women
04. Secretariat of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation
10. General Secretary of Labor
05. General Directorate of Income
11. Ministry of Infrastructure, Energy and Planning
06. Ministry of Tourism and Protected Areas
12. Ministry of Economy
64 | MANIFESTO
#CiudadQuilmes Quilmes' Brewery New Headquarters Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Private Competition - participation by invitation. Work team: Ricardo Sargiotti, Maria Rovea Aguirre, Agustin Mauro, Franco Frisicaro, Daniela Lauandos, Maria Leguizamon, Luca Clementi. The opening of the new headquarters will concur with the return to the offices and workspaces after the pause imposed by the pandemic. As companies and their teams prepare for such a return, some questions are being posed with urgency: How do we use our offices? Are The environments they offer still appropriate? How should the new postpandemic workspaces look like? And how could they overcome the inertia of the home-office tendency? This project argues for a new reinterpretation of the workspace, and adopts a programmatic layout that links the company's slogan: "we have the dream of uniting people for a better world" to the concept of “encounters” in the city. This idea of using qualities of the city as sustenance and organization for our proposal, allowed us to conceptualize the new office-space as a sequence of places that bring inside the experience of walking around streets, parks and urban blocks (public, semi-public and private spaces): a true city inside the city that brings people together.
Barrio Nuñez, Buenos Aires. Argentina Centro Empresarial Libertador
PROJECTS LEGACY | 65
#CiudadQuilmes a place for encounters. The city originated from the encounter between people, and today it continues to be the meeting place par excellence: It is the scenery of our lives. This is why it is embodied in the program’s layout, representing so forcefully in its essence what the beer Quilmes means for Argentines: gathering.
#Streets public thoroughfare. The streets or corridors have the particularity of always being visually connected with the outside, leading into open squares facing the river's façade with direct entrance of natural light. The experience of walking through these streets (unlike traditional dark corridors) allows users to easily recognize and find the most suitable place for the activity to be carried out.
#Squares open spaces for community gatherings. The "squares", clearly defined by their geometry, equipment and lighting, will always count with wide direct views towards the city and natural lighting, giving place to all kinds of relaxed, solitary or group-activities in the right environment. Their transition to the more formal areas (the "blocks") is made through coffee spots and stand-up sectors.
#Blocks working areas. Blocks, understood as the semi-public and private areas of the city, are defined by the “facades” that build the perimeter offices: meeting rooms, quiet or huddle rooms, phone booths and coffee spots, each one adapted to satisfy its needs. Inside the blocks, in the areas towards the outside of the building’s floor, one can find the more traditional areas (open offices) whose characteristics of natural lighting and views according to their position, will mark the personality.
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A new paradigm These concepts of the city give shape to the programmatic matrix of the proposal, therefore, the logic of its internal subdivision does not respond only to a technical-functional reason but also a conceptual one that gives unity to the proposal. It is necessary to apply a balance between the virtues (in permanent change) of technological support and the need to provide pleasant, innovative and motivational places for people, which can give them security and familiarity, over uncertainties of permanent or superficial change.
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Main entrance - welcome plaza // Floor 26
Tree square // Floor 26
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26th floor plan esc. 1:500
Section esc. 1:500
A city within the city... The program separates itself from the main facade to allow the greatest possible entry of natural light and wide views to the outside. Other activities and services such as kinesiology, beauty and recording room, among others, are located in the Southwest angle, near the entrance to the 26th floor. All the decisions and ideas that guided the development of this project contributed to the materialization of a place that, beyond contemplating each of the functional, technological and constructive demands and requirements, places people at its center and as its raison d’etre: “El lugar del encuentro” - a place of encounters.
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Blocks - open office // Floor 27
Street - hallway // Floor 26
Square - stairs plaza // Direct vinculation floors 26-27
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27th floor plan esc. 1:500
North terrace vegetation
South terrace vegetation
27 1/2 th floor plan esc. 1:500
Space for more than one species Human beings have an innate affinity for all living things. In architecture and interior design, this translates into the use of plant species in the field of housing or work to create an environment closer to Nature. It is proven that this connection contributes to our well-being and a better quality of life, giving us greater positivity, energy and happiness.
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South Terrace// Floor 27
North Terrace // Floor 27
South Terrace// Floor 27
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Quincho Maldonado RSA ARCHITECTS TYPE: NEW STUDY ROOM AND QUINCHO Site: Córdoba, Argentina. March 2021 Involvement phase: design development.
Cañuela's interior design ARQ & Co.
TO BEGIN
Type: RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR DESIGN Site: Córdoba, Argentina. May 2021 Involvement phase: design development.
- Intensively studied and iterated design options for facade, terminations and material selections helping to speed up project decision making.
- Worked together with the Lead Designer to propose an interior design for a house under construction.
- Completed design drawings in AutoCAD, and constructed flexible and alterable 3d computer models used extensively during design sessions with the architects and client.
- Produced 3d models and digital ‘study’ images used for decisionmaking regarding materials and constructive terminations, and high-quality interior renderings for presentations and meetings with the client.
- Developed high quality rendering images used on client presentations to communicate the project's idea and final appearance. Project description: The commission consisted in designing a new quicho outside the house, in the former garage, with a study space and recreation room. A helical staircase located behind the first volume connects the two spaces, and a raised walkway connects the studio with the interior of the house on the upper floor.
- Computation of materials and budget development, getting in contact with construction companies and material suppliers. Project description: The project includes the interior design for a house under construction, with proposals for the living room space and its exterior quicho, bedrooms and bathrooms.
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Pedrazzoli's renovation ARQ & Co.
IN PROGRESS
Derqui's renovation ARQ & Co.
IN PROGRESS
Type: RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR RENOVATION Site: Córdoba, Argentina. June 2021 Involvement phase: design development.
Type: APARTMENT INTERIOR RENOVATION Site: Córdoba, Argentina. January 2021 Involvement phase: design development.
- Lead Designer on the project for a house interior renovation. Developed the design idea and proposal under the supervision of the Architects of the Studio, producing 3d models, digital images and technical drawings.
- Worked together with the Lead Designer to propose an interior renovation of an old apartment, adapting its interiors and functional distribution to respond to new necessities and ways of living.
- Completed the project's technical plans and construction paperwork on AutoCAD, submitting all required documents before the construction process began to ensure the supervision of legal specifications and company procedures.. Project description: The client requested a comprehensive interior renovation of the house, including the living-dining room, cellar, bathroom and bedrooms. The decision of using noble materials and a warm color palette aimed to create a cozy and domestic atmosphere
- Produced several study images for material testing, furniture incorporation and new interior layouts, using 3d programs and digital imagery. - Outlined project schedules and tasks, getting in contact with contractors and material suppliers, developing technical CAD drawings for the project's execution. Project description: The project seeks to remodel and re-adapt an old apartment from the year 85’ to the new needs and ways of living. The remodeling was comprehensive, including all of the unit’s rooms and spaces.
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PH OTO G R A P HY Journey Log Nikon D5600 There are moments that I would like to be able to grab and put in my pocket so I could carry them with myself the rest of the way. And it is the camera's shutter button that allows me to overcome the impossibility of such delusion and fulfill my need. They are the people who walk by my side, the birds that fly above my head, the animals that cross my way, the facades of the buildings that my eyes see or the shadows that they cast on the ground ... any of them are the ones that dictate the moment that I should bring to a pause, and it is my attempt to pause these atmospheres, well described by Peter Zumthor, that dictate the meaning of this Hobby of mine. Maybe it was this eagerness to capture the things around me that also led me to study the ordering of nature to encompass the needs of humans… And if you ask me if I have a “style” regarding photography, I must say that I am still looking for it…or maybe not. I may never find this that people call “my style”, but still, I am happy with it, because at the end, as J.M.W Turner says: "atmosphere is my style"
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Memorial du templier Jaques de Molay 48°51'25.8"N 2°20'26.9"E Paris, Fr.
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Duomo di Milano 45°27'51.0"N 9°11'21.7"E Milano, It.
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Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Carmen 31°24'43.2"S 64°11'29.3"W Cordoba, Arg.
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Ponte della Paglia 45°26'01.2"N 12°20'27.7"E Venezia, It.
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Lago di Venezia 45°25'56.1"N 12°20'59.7"E Venezia, It.
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Laocoonte e i suoi figli 41°54'23.2"N 12°27'17.1"E Vatican City
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La scala del Bramante 41°54'23.1"N 12°27'12.2"E Vatican City
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Gare de Lyon Saint Exupéry 45°43'15.8"N 5°04'34.1"E Lyon, Fr.
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Berliner Dom 52°31'09.5"N 13°24'05.2"E Berlin, De.
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