Symbiotic Urban Water Systems:
The Architectural Impact of Integrating Living Technologies to Manage Watershed Flows and Ecosystem Services
The Riachuelo and the Formation of a Greenway
Master Plan Comuna 8
Revitalizing the City South of the City
Stitching Connections to Foster a Strong Sense of Community
Using Comuna 8 as a Pilot Project for Change
Site Hydrology + Topography
The issues of unsustainable practices, water management and social welfare all culminate in Comuna 8 of The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This area will serve as a pilot project for the city and will act as a case study to other sites across the globe that face similar challenges of how to manage and plan for social housing public space, urban ecology, context related building typology and sustainable infrastructure. This area contains strong assets like the Riachuelo River and an abundance of water flowing through the site. The main plan will be to focus on using existing infrastructure as an armature to help revitalize and design a network of connected greenways that will revitalize the polluted and strained ecosystem of the Banado all the way from the Airport to the Rio de la Plata.
Master Plan Site + Greenway
Lago Soldati
Villa Soldati
Villa Olimpica
Rio de la Plata
Villa Lugano
Riachuelo
Pilot Area
Site Boundary
Creating a Sense of Place
Airport (EZE)
Watershed
The Master Plan creates new ways for the two separated communities on either side of the greenway to interact and engage with each other. The master plan takes certain program elements of the school like sports fields and extends them from Lago Soldati all the way down to the Riachuelo. This array of amenity infrastructure helps to tie the communities on either side by providing activities and open space in the middle of the two neighborhoods. At the center of the proposed plan sits the Villa Olimpica that will couple the sports high school and intensify the importance and practicality of the circulation created by the master plan. These new pieces of infrastructure, the high school and Villa Olimpica, will define this area and make it a haven for sports culture as well as revitalize the links between divided communities.
Site Plan / Sections / Exploded Axon Cellular Wetland System Cell 1
Cell 2
Cell 3
Cell 4
Section Cut Trough Classroom Hallway to Wetland
Section Cut Trough Canyon Wetland
ADE 622: Spring 2015 Advanced Architectural Studio IV (Independent Project)
Student: Ali Abbaszadegan Instructor: Claudio Vekstein