PABLO TABERNA PORTFOLIO
PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS As Partner at Borsani Stivala Taberna Architects C+M House Educational and High Performance Sports Center B+R House CAD2+CAPSF Building
Site Plan
C+M House Type: Commission Program: Residential Location: Funes, Argentina Year: 2016-2017 Status: Built Role: Partner in Charge Performed Tasks: Managed client relationship, conceived design plan, took strategic design decisions, supervised collaborators and service providers, elaborated drawings, built models, produced images, calculated budget, procured building permit, managed construction project The C+M House is located in a new residential neighborhood developed in the outskirts of Funes. The lot is situated in the northeast boundary of the new urban development and next to the countryside. In this area, neighborhood and countryside invade each other and create an indefinite scenery: the urban grid is blurry and the landscape of the Pampas plains is revealed. A white 6x6x6 meters cube devises the summer house. The prism is positioned at the back of the lot, exempt from its limits and parallel to the building line. This location generates surrounding open spaces of two different scales: a small one towards the neighborhood and a larger one towards the countryside. The interior contains the entirety of the design plan in a single
space. Functionalities are organized in two levels according to the scales and orientations of the adjacent open spaces. The double-height living room opens towards the countryside, facing north. The sleeping area is placed on the mezzanine and opened towards the east and the west. Finally, the dining room, the kitchen, the bathroom and the storage room are located below the mezzanine and open towards the most intimate patio at the front, facing south. The project is materialized through a combination of wet and dry construction elements. The envelope is made of plastered ceramic bricks and reinforced concrete. The mezzanine and roof are created out of structural pipes and U-beams made of steel, wood panels and sheet metal.
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Educational and High Performance Sports Center Type: Competition Program: Cultural, Educational and Sports Location: Rosario, Argentina Year: 2017 Status: Design Role: Partner in Charge Performed Tasks: Conceived design plan, took strategic design decisions, supervised collaborators and service providers, elaborated drawings, built models, produced images, assembled final presentation The new Educational, Recreational and High Performance Sports Center is located in the Independence Park, the oldest and most iconic public space in Rosario. The complex is integrated into the preexistent cultural, educational, sporting and recreational spaces of the park, replicating its logic of disperse spaces within a large urban garden. Appealing to the concept of campus, an unusual building typology in Argentina, the project is solved by six independent halls which are interconnected by a network of paths. Each container hosts different programs: auditorium, restaurant, gym, the School of Physical Education, and swimming pools. This fragmentation allows absolute functional independence and facilitates the construction of the proposal in multiple stages. Furthermore, the pavilions are arranged on the ground in a way that adjusts to the diverse and numerous existing
trees. At the same time, its organization generates a central square, which becomes the focal point of the project and articulates the operations of the buildings as a whole. The structures are materialized by a combination of wet and dry construction elements. The foundations, the swimming pools and the tunnel are made of reinforced concrete. The load-bearing structure is made of truss beams and C-beams columns. The envelope is a double-skin facade. Its exterior face is made of perforated sheet metal and the interior alternates aluminum and glass joinery with alveolar polycarbonate panels. Such a combination ensures natural lighting, control over the sun's incidence and thermal insulation. At the same time, it gives the complex a dual identity. During the day, boxes appear opaque and the park is projected on them. At night, the interiors are illuminated and revealed to the city.
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B+R House Type: Commission Program: Residential Location: Rosario, Argentina Year: 2012-2016 Status: Built Role: Partner in Charge Performed Tasks: Managed client relationship, conceived design plan, took strategic design decisions, supervised service providers, elaborated drawings, built models, produced images, calculated budget, procured building permit, managed construction project Award: Honorable Mention, Santa Fe Province Built Project Competition, CAPSF Awards Competition Built Architecture XXI c. 2000-2017 (Single Family House Category) The B+R House is located in a low density residential neighborhood in the outskirts of Rosario. Reinterpreting the concept of chalet-the predominant typology in the area-the project creates a single-storey structure that conforms to the lot of land without being limited by it. A gabled roof made of wood and metal rests on two parallel brick bearing walls. These walls rotate and bifurcate in two directions: one towards the front, which creates the main entrance, and another one towards the back, which opens the view to a garden of old trees. Concurrently, the combination of angles and structures create privacy by
blocking possible connections between the street and the backyard. In the interior of the house, each space is designed according to the best combination of orientation and functionality. The bedrooms and bathrooms look to the north and the east while the kitchen, dining room and living room look to the west and the south. Windows vary in both size and height, capturing light and views and, at the same time, generate diverse relationships with the exterior.
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CAD2+CAPSF Building Type: Competition Program: Cultural and Offices Location: Rosario, Argentina Year: 2013 Status: Design Role: Partner in Charge Performed Tasks: Conceived design plan, took strategic design decisions, elaborated drawings, built models, produced images, assembled final presentation Award: Second Prize, Santa Fe Province Design Competition The expansion of the Rosario Architects Board's headquarters is conceived as a combination of rectangular polyhedrons. This combination creates a structure that is able to accommodate to and take advantage of the available space, located between the current headquarters and its neighboring property, both of historical value. Just as the undermined urban mass shapes the morphological DNA of the city, the proposed body is subject to equivalent subtractions. These perforations are strategically designed to generate the main entrance, multiple heights and, essentially, internal patios. Moreover, patios serve two functions: they articulate the relationship with the pre-existing buildings and, at the same time, organize the entire design plan. As a matter of fact, interior spaces are both delimited by and opened to the patios. The volume is composed of and organized in
modules, which allows both spatial flexibility and the materialization of the proposal in multiple stages. The structure is solved by a combination of wet and dry construction elements. Steel structural pipe columns and I-beams are combined with composite slabs and concrete. Furthermore, composite slabs act as formwork during construction and as external reinforcement at the final stage. The skin and interior divisions are made of glass of different shades and degrees of opacity, composing a veiled and specular surface towards the outside while translucent and ethereal on the inside. The mass and the voids, the lights and the shadows, the lightness of the new and the heaviness of the old: all of them contrast with each other and, at the same time, coexist in harmony and constitute the identity of the proposal.
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Northeast Elevation
Second Floor Plan
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ACADEMIC PROJECTS As Student at Columbia University Rural Density As Student at National University of Rosario District Library Intermodal Station Social Recovery Center
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Rural Density Course: Advanced Studio VI, CU, GSAPP Professor: Juan Herreros Program: Mixed-Use Location: Castilla y León, Spain Year: 2019 Role: Co-Author (with Andrés Milos and Ignacio Gonzalez) Performed Tasks: Co-led conception of design plan, took strategic design decisions, elaborated drawings, built models, produced images, assembled final presentation In the outskirts of Madrid, beyond the influence of the capital’s industrial district but at less than 90 miles of distance, a vast area is colloquially known as “The Empty Spain.” Spread over places like Castilla y León, towns and villages in this region usually have less than 500 inhabitants. As a matter of fact. the Empty Spain is getting emptier year by year as population continues to decrease. This is a depleted territory. Multiple layers of erosion such as desertification, depopulation, lack of employment opportunities and population aging affect most of the elements that conform this dystopic landscape. In other words, geography, politics, economy, and demography are dysfunctional and increasingly impacted by climate change, isolation and abandonment. Under these environmental conditions, the project aims to rethink traditional methods of rural occupation and
exploitation. In this sense, agriculture, animal farming and spaces intended for human occupation coexist in a vertical, single hyper-structure meant to be an experimental research and development center for alternative and sustainable production models.
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District Library Course: Architectural Project III, FAPyD, UNR Professor: Guillermo Banchini, Architect Program: Cultural and Educational Location: Rosario, Argentina Year: 2009 Role: Co-Author (with Gabriel Stivala) Performed Tasks: Co-led conception of design plan, took strategic design decisions, elaborated drawings, built models, produced images, assembled final presentation The District Library is located in downtown Rosario, in front of a linear park that borders the Parana river. The intervention takes place in a parcel on the river's canyon where a yerba mate factory once stood. The factory's grounds were later redeveloped to build a residential neighborhood that did not prosper. Because of this, the lot was excavated but never refilled. It is precisely in that urban void where the building fits. The project is solved in four superimposed layers. The design plan is organized on them from bottom to top, from private to public. The parking lot is located on the lower level. The second level houses the reading spaces and the administrative area. A third level contains the entrances and all the spaces related to complementary cultural activities (i.e., auditorium, classrooms and exhibition rooms). Finally, an open-air, completely public cloak functions as an extension of the park towards the city. The complex system of blueprints
that connects the different levels is materialized by folded slabs supported on a grid of equidistant columns, both made of reinforced concrete.
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Transversal Section
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Intermodal Station Course: Architectural Project II, FAPyD, UNR Professor: Sebastian Bechis, Architect Program: Infrastructure and Transport Location: Rosario, Argentina Year: 2008 Role: Co-Author (with Gabriel Stivala) Performed Tasks: Co-led conception of design plan, took strategic design decisions, elaborated drawings, built models, produced images, assembled final presentation Award: Arquisur Honorable Mention, International Student Competition, Arquisur Award Prof. Jose Maria Aroztegui The new Intermodal Station is located in Puerto Norte, Rosario's old port area on the Parana River that is currently being reconverted into a commercial and residential hub. The building is inserted in Patio Cadenas, a former railway maneuvering station and an old cause of physical disconnection between Rosario's downtown and northern neighborhoods. Due to the large size of the plot to be intervened, the proposal faces different realities. Towards the south, the urban grid is mostly residential. Towards the north, the characteristic of the urban grid varies, containing the Scalabrini Ortiz Park, new shopping centers and residential buildings. The project is resolved in two levels within a single linear container. On the ground floor there are entrances, ticket
offices, shops, and, fundamentally, the bus station that faces the park. Below ground level there is a parking lot for cars and buses and the train station, also overlooking the park through a projected slope. Finally, a tower is intended to function as a hotel. The goals of the intervention can be classified according to their respective scopes. At a local level, the main goal is to restructure the urban and interurban transportation system. At a regional level, the main goal is to create a much needed gateway into Rosario, the second most populous city in Argentina. Indeed, the project intends to position Rosario and its surrounding region as a communication hub in a South American context.
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Underground Floor Plan
Transversal Section
South Elevation
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Social Recovery Center Course: Architectural Project I, FAPyD, UNR Professor: Nicolas Campodonico, Architect Program: Cultural and Educational Location: Puerto Gaboto, Argentina Year: 2007 Role: Co-Author (with Gabriel Stivala) Performed Tasks: Co-led conception of design plan, took strategic design decisions, elaborated drawings, built models, produced images, assembled final presentation The Social Recovery Center is located in Puerto Gaboto, a small rural town situated on the Coronda River. The building houses a non-profit organization which purpose is to reinsert orphan children and elderly people with no family into society. The project is located in an empty block near the southern border of the town, behind a chapel. This location generates two different links with the surrounding space. To the northeast, the link is more urban in nature, connecting with the town through its main street, Alameda Avenue. The second link, to the southwest, is more rural, connecting to the few and scattered residential buildings that dilute into the plains. The program is organized in two opposite and independent strips, differentiating functionalities that can be shared with the community (i.e., dining room, swimming pool and gym) from those that are only intended for the people attending the
Center (i.e., classrooms). This organization allows a fluid connection with the community without affecting the normal development of the Center's activities. Finally, both strips connect thorough the main entrance, located facing Alameda Avenue. In terms of materiality, the main criterion was to preserve and adjust to the natural characteristics of the surroundings. Furthermore, structures combine wood-an abundant construction material in the area-bricks, glass and sheet metal. The building stresses the feedback with the surroundings and achieves a separate but cohesive connection among its different functionalities. This interaction between connection, separation and adjustment to the environment provides an enabling framework for the development of learning and reinsertion activities for vulnerable groups.
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Northeast Elevation
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