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AINO RAATIKKA PORTFOLIO

INDEX

PROJECTS

WORKSHOP

COMPETITION

PARASITE

ART BOULEVARD

THE CIRCUIT

LAYERED

LIVING IMAGE

LIMITLESS

OLYMPIC VILLAGE

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PA R A S I T E The project is located in the area of Colegiales which forms part of the audiovisual district of Buenos Aires. Analyzing the area we noticed that there were two empty postindustrial areas and also many smaller lots inside the urban section, that were in disuse or empty. We came up with a structural system that could be applied in these three different areas with different scales and programs. The flexible structure allows of the addition or removal of programs in the first project area in order to generate a park with different sectors. In the second project area the structure defines the big empty areas without generating visual limits. Furthermore the structure can also activate and eliminate some of the existing walls. At times the structure is above the street level, allowing us to transform the empty limited spaces into public places without invading them.The third area works with the problems of the neighborhood by activating the empty lots. In all three different scales the structure generates a flexible system that encourages future innovations and construction in phases.

Buenos Aires Train Stations

9,8 Ha

Empty space

1 Ha

Green public space

0,001 Ha Limits

WORKSHOPS

LIBRARY

TREES

MARKET

PROGRAMS

GREEN SPACE

CIRCULATION

NEW AREA: TRAIN STATION

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1ST SITE PLAN

GREEN SPACES

STRUCTURE

CONSTRUCTURED SPACE

PEDESTRIAN AREAS + BIKE

2ND SITE PLAN

CARS + BIKE

EXISTING BUILDINGS

U R B A N G R O W T H : S T R E E T/ S T R U C T U R E

NEW PROGRAMS IN DIFFERENT SCALES :

Neighborhood

Metropolitan

FLEXIBLE STRUCTURE :

Housing units, offices

A C T I VA C I O N O F U R B A N L I M I T S :

Movies, festivals, etc.

Sidewalls

Streets

A R T B U L E VA R D This is a project that was created to promote investment in art, where spaces of creation, production and cultural diffusion coexist. Furthermore, it tries to revitalize the neighborhood of Boca, an area neglected for years. The idea was to expand the sidewalk inside the building, to create a big boulevard of the arts. Above this boulevard would be the rehearsal studios floating in the air like big screens. These floating screens would also work as a platform for the exhibitions in the top floor, with views of the Riachuelo River. In the beginning arts imitated nature. These spaces try not only to mimic the virtual but also transcend being just images on the screen. These spaces try to activate the viewer and make people really feel what they see. hese spaces also try to minimize the unreal and make it possible to be on the other side of the screen via the mixing depth and surfaces. The strategy was to maximize the places where you could see and also be seen. Places that make us forget about time, spaces that at the same time organize us and let us loose. The whole space is fluid and open and is covered with perforated metal skin, which works as a parasol and screen to the city.

STREET ART

ART ROUTE

ART SHOW

EXHIPITIONS

STRUCTURE

SHELL

CITY

CITY + PARK

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AUDITORIUMS

LOCKER ROOMS

EXHIBITIONS

CAFE

HAPPENINGS

ART FAIR

SCULPTURES

GROUND FLOOR

MEDIA LIBRARY

REHEARSAL STUDIO

SCULPTURES

FIRST FLOOR

REHEARSAL STUDIO REHEARSAL STUDIO

STUDIO

REHEARSAL STUDIO

SCULPTURES

EXHIPITIONS

SCULPTURES

SECOND FLOOR

THIRD FLOOR

LIBRARY

EXHIPITIONS

SECTIOND-D

SECTION B-B

STRUCTURE

SECTION C-C

CURTAIN

GREEN FACADE

SOUTH VIEW

ART INSTALATIONS

LIGHT SHOWS

MOVIE SCREENS

NORTH VIEW

C I R C U I T The idea was to create a faรงade system that would simultaneously protect from the sun and also generate a workout route and lookout for the visitors and people living in the neighborhood. This would make the sport center integrate with its surroundings and offer some new activities. Also the decision to leave half of the block as an public space generates new meeting points and activities for the locals and visitors. The sports center becomes part of a society that can now benefit from it. The ground floor has a pathway in the middle with the entrance that makes the building more transparent and more accessible. These sensations are strengthened by the glass walls that generate an illusion of infinite views and at the same time offers people views of the sports competitions happening inside. The structure is formed by modulated columns and a vierendeel beams to cover large distances of the courts and swimming pools on both sides of the building. The workout route is supported by tensors that seem to be moving because of the variable width of the pathway and the sequence that changes accordingly to the position of the sun and the programs inside.

SITE PLAN

GROUND FLOOR

SECTION A-A

FIRST FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

THIRD FLOOR

SOUTH VIEW

NORTH VIEW 38

DETAIL OF FACADE

WEST VIEW

SECTION C-C

SECTION E-E

L A Y E R E D My day seems like a movie, poem or a painting. I feel at the same time like a director, writer and painter. The idea was to design not only a hotel but a multifunctional space, which could generate new experiences for the locals and tourists alike. We wanted to continue the opposite green park towards the hotel towards the public programs in the first floors. These public programs gradually change into the private hotel rooms. All the public programs in the lower floors have terraces towards the park at different heights and widths. The rest of the floors have all the private hotel rooms, which face the best north east light and the park. In between these two different worlds is the main public circulation separating the private and public. This transparent double height circulation line generates views of the park and of the Boca neighborhood and also visually connects the different public floors. The rhythm of the terraces and public programs in the lower levels orders the height and position of the upper floors so that the whole building works together generating different grades of shades and transparency. The south faĂ§ade with all of the circulation is made with glass permitting great views of the city. The concrete parasols of the north faĂ§ade donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t continue to the south side, which has a circuit for bicycles so that every guest can arrive at his hotel room or the upper terraces on a bike. 42

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OFFICES

SHOPS

FIRST FLOOR

HALL

SECOND FLOOR

THIRD FLOOR

LIBRARY

BAR

RESTAURANT

CONFERENCE HALL

MULTIPURPOSE ROOMS

MEETING ROOMS

GYM

SPA

FOURTH FLOOR FITNESS

CONFERENCE HALL

TYPICAL FLOOR

HOTEL ROOM TYPES

SECTION A-A

SOUTH VIEW

NORTH VIEW

SECTION B-B

STRUCTURE

DETAIL OF FACADE

DETAIL OF TERRACE

LIVING IMAGE Can architecture make the fiction of movies seem more real? Can architecture bring the fictional world of the movies and the real world of architecture closer together?The design strategy forms part of the investigation for my thesis of the similitudes between movies and architecture. I chose four different aspects that movies and architecture have in common, as tools to design the cinematic cultural center: space, time, light and story. The flexibility and distribution of the public programs in the ground floor generates different paths that connect the outside and inside of the building blurring the limits between the real and the virtual. These public programs generate big boxes that work as a display for movies or graffiti and also as columns for the upper levels. This way the whole ground floor turns into a public arena, a modern version of an Acropolis. The space between the public ground floor and private upstairs, acts like a big rooftop movie theater. It is formed by the roof of the workshops and studios below. This public boulevard is inclined so that everyone can move while watching and also to allow for office workers to arrive at work by bicycle. The building questions the common ways of seeing and being in the movies and asks the viewer to participate in its story. All work together to form a unique manuscript.

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LIMITLESS This project is part of a workshop that my University made with a University of Peking. We were investigating the meaning of a border in architecture. We chose one area in Buenos Aires; Lugano, which has a strong character of both, social houses and slums existing side by side. We tried with our project to make the border disappear. We were trying to unite the world of chaos with the ordinated world by creating a module that would be flexible enough to be able to exist in both. The system would also allow the structure to spread in different surrounding empty areas like a parasite. It would give a limit of height, new public spaces and provide green space with its roof. The roof would also work as a collector of rainwater which could be used in the houses and also to create green walls in the facades.

OLYMPIC VILLAGE 1ST PRIZE

This project won the 1st prize in the Youth Olympic Village 2018 competition and will be constructed in Buenos Aires. The project respects the existing general limits such as the unification of the urban grid, the formation of the continuous façade and liberating the ground floor to generate visual and physical transparencies towards the center of the block. This defines the inside of the block as a form of space. The housing units in the tower, between buildings and in the corners have things in common. All of them minimize the public circulations to grant bigger size for the housing units. Spacious, semi-covered and passable expansions, work as “emptied space” and furthermore allow light into the building to add to the lightning produced by the buildings internal patios. The crossing of different typologies with the structural system is solved in a natural way. The structural and spatial modulation legitimizes and accompanies the decision of the project allowing a clear order. This order helps to obtain flexibility and to make multiple configurations possible. 74