Catalinas Headquarters

Multicultural Building

FADU - UBA

Year: Aug - Dec 2018 Size: 120,000 sqft Buenos Aires, Argentina

Thesis Final Project Final project was an opportunity to express my concerns about the approach towards design, architecture and urbanism.

In the context of a city as Buenos Aires, I decided to design a project where there could be more than one main activity. The main concept origin from the rigorous study of the future of urbanism and societies. The concern about this was, who’s responsability to design, the city towards the building or the building towards the city? Therefore we are commited to think about the challenges of socities in terms of developing a building in a city, and the future of the cities depend on our buildings.

longitudinal context diagram urban context analysis concept diagrams site & context location diagrams

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Palermo Tower

FADU-UBA

Project: high rise residential tower

Year: Aug-Dec 2017 Type: 260,000 sqft Buenos Aires, Argentina

Team Members: Matías Costa Cordova

Starting with an extense research of urban planification at Buenos Aires, Palermo tower was an opportunity to rethink the future of an abandoned part of the city. Taking in advantage the surroundings, the high residential tower offered four different apartment types that responded to different views of the city. Depending on the height, the tower slighlty moves to a different side to look for. Therefore this exercise commited us to do an intense structural study to be able to design through it the main concept of this high rise residential tower.

Concept development, model fabrication.