Project Entry 2017 for Latin America
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Public facility towers, Córdoba, Argentina
Next Generation 3rd prize winning team for “Service Points” - Public facility towers, Córdoba, Argentina (l-r): Ángela Ferrero, Lucía Uribe Echevarria, María Belén Pizarro, María Augustina Nieto and Seizen Uehara - all students at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
Last updated: March 21, 2017 Córdoba, Argentina
Innovation and transferability / economic viability and compatibility
We believe that architecture should be summarized to its services, it should contain activities inside, but the strength of the space should be outside, within everybody’s reach. The project seeks the lowest investment, generating the greatest amount of useful meters. The main structure is made of metallic elements, which allow easy and quick assembly, and the possibility of performing in places of different geographical and climatic conditions. The structures are designed to seek maximum efficiency, composed of the least amount of elements, and which generate free spaces, adaptable to different types of buildings. Each infrastructure tower can act independently or create a system of services more ample to contain activities of greater size, adapt to different dimensional requirements.
Environmental performance and use of resources / aesthetic and contextual impact
The top of these service towers is designed to receive rainwater, and in the thickness of its edge contain water reservoirs tanks, allowing irrigation and water supply throughout the project. The towers are designed with the least possible amount of elements, and with prefabricated parts that can be easily assembled in the place, reducing the impact in the area of intervention. The material is steel, which allows for sustainability over time, as maintenance is minimal and maximum durability. The main structure generates a thickness of one meter in the enclosure of the towers, which generate a double façade, which in addition to being functional to use, serve as a climate filter, helping to create living spaces inside, reducing energy consumption for heating and cooling.
Ethical standard / Social Inclusion
We seek the way in which limit that acts like separation can be resignified, operating as a link. Private entities and public policies operate with disaggregation to solve problems. We believe that public space, infrastructures and service architecture are the material ways to carry out this union. Public space is a nexus, an element capable of linking two sides of the same boundary. This must be injected infrastructures and services, to give it use and direction. We believe that architecture must be functional above all things and should serve everyone equally, helping the social mixture. The project generate architecture based on the valorization of the collective space promote an image of the public as an area of integration, participation, and belonging.