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Territorial Figure in Argentina

Tidal energy landscape

Territorial Figure in Argentina

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    Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

    Aerial view of the tidal lagoon. The understanding of climate change as a global issue, in search of an infrastructural proposal that belongs and respects its context. Thinking the landscape as operative land. Isolated, almost encapsulated, to maintain the perfect ecological synchronization of nature, but meticulously thought out to show that human race is able to propose ideas that respect our home: planet Earth.

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    Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

    Based on a local, regional and international study of Patagonia, we recognized ecological, topographic, migratory and natural orders. Hence, an isolated tidal lagoon is designed based on four categories: environment, water production, energy and tourism. From them, the user appropriates this water infrastructure, generating multiple tensions in permanent relationship with the landscape. The proposal responds to the need of a person, the development of a country and the health of the planet.

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    Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

    Global issues in areas with less anthropization and greater natural resources: global gardens.

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    Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

    Global and local energy analysis and tidal opportunity in Argentina. Río Gallegos estuary research.

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    Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

    Aerial view: tidal power station and new port in activity.

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    Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

    Continental link: extension of the territory to the water infrastructure.

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    Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

    Using Patagonian resources, we designed components that connect the user with the infrastructure.

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    Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

    Dynamic pool: harnessing the tides.

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    Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

    Ecological connector: ecosystem dialog.

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    Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

    Double pathway: proximity to the liquid territory and its activities.

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    Holcim Awards 2017 for Latin America prize handover ceremony, San José

    Winners of the Next Generation 1st prize for Territorial Figure in Argentina, Punta Loyola, Argentina (l-r): Tomás Pont Apóstolo, Stefano Romagnoli and Juan Cruz Serafini, all Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.

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    LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for Latin America prize handover ceremony, San José

    Presentation of the Next Generation prizes for projects in Argentina (l-r): Carlos Espina, CEO LafargeHolcim in Argentina congratulates winners of the Next Generation 1st prize Juan Cruz Serafini, Tomás Pont Apóstolo and Stefano Romagnoli, together with Mariela Marchisio, Dean of Architecture, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba who received the prize on behalf of the winning team of the 3rd prize.

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    LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for Latin America media briefing, San José

    Stefano Romagnoli - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, Next Generation 1st prize winner for Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina at the media briefing.

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    LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for Latin America second day program, San José

    Celebrating the success of teams from Argentina in the Next Generation category (l-r): Mariela Marchisio, Dean of Architecture, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba with Tomás Pont Apóstolo (1st), Javier Giorgis (event guest), Juan Cruz Serafini (1st) and Stefano Romagnoli (1st) all from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.

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    Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

    Project authors (l-r): Juan Cruz Serafini, Stefano Romagnoli and Tomás Pont Apóstolo, architects, National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina.

  • Next generation Next Generation 1st prize 2017–2018 Latin America
  • Awards Ideas prize 2017–2018 Global

Infrastructure-landscape project for the generation of electric power based on tidal currents in the Río Gallegos estuary at Punta Loyola in Argentina. To support emerging professionals to conduct leading edge, practice-related research in the field of sustainable construction, the Holcim Foundation provided a Research in Practice Grant (RPG) of USD 75,000 to three young architects who had initially developed their research together at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina.

By Tomás Pont, Juan Cruz Serafini, Stefano Romagnoli - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

Ideas: Urban Requalification

Addressing the potential ramifications of human-induced climate change on the natural environment, the authors propose an infrastructure for the use of tidal energy in Río Gallegos estuary at Punta Loyola in Argentina. The project merges infrastructure, landscape, and architecture in a magnificent natural setting.

The RPG funding and mentoring allowed the team to expose their so far intuitively developed ideas to the scrutiny of a broad range of experts in the fields of tidal energy production, marine biology, and environmental politics.

Territorial Figure in Argentina

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Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

Using Patagonian resources, we designed components that connect the user with the infrastructure.

The project demonstrates that infrastructure must not remain hidden, but can be used in its aesthetic potential, combining technology and beauty to create an intervention that is in sync with nature. Holcim Awards 2017 jury for Latin America

Project updates

July 12, 2023 | Research in Practice Grant (RPG) Update | Punta Loyola, Argentina

Ocean Energy Landscapes - Report published

A report of the research of Stefano Romagnoli, Tomás Pont Apóstolo, and Juan Cruz Serafini Ocean Energy Landscapes: Energy infrastructures towards greater local sovereignty in Patagonia, Argentina is available via the Holcim Foundation website. The research investigated the questions raised by their original Holcim Awards Next Generation prize winning proposal that examined the social, political, and spatial implications of the next mode of energy, and how design practices can help to shape a more just urbanization.

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October 04, 2018 | Awards Celebration | Córdoba, Argentina

Sharing Awards pride with stakeholders in Argentina

Global Holcim Awards Ideas prize handover – “Territorial Figure” in Argentina

Two of the four most recent Holcim Awards Next Generation prizes for Latin America were conferred to teams from the Universidad National de Córdoba (UNC). The team that won the regional Next Generation 1st prize with their “Tidal Energy Landscape” project were also recipients of an Global Ideas prize selected by the Global Holcim Awards jury 2018, chaired by Alejandro Aravena, laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2016).

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March 28, 2018 | Media release | Zurich, Switzerland

Prizes for exciting ideas in Argentina, Ghana and the USA

Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

For the first time, the Global Holcim Awards jury selected three of the 40 Acknowledgement and Next Generation prize-winning projects from the regional phase of the competition to receive Holcim Awards Ideas prizes. The prizes go ex aequo to “Refrigerating Jar” in Ghana, “Cooling Roof” in California, USA, and “Territorial Figure” in Argentina.

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March 09, 2018 | Global Jury Report | Zurich, Switzerland

“Rethinking the role of renewable energy production at the large scale”

Global Holcim Awards 2018 – Jury meeting, March 9 2018 – Zurich

The jury applauds the authors’ vision to rethink the role of renewable energy production at the large scale. In one figure, the authors address a global challenge, merging territorial planning, landscape design, and architecture into a comprehensive system. Further development would need to take into account biodiversity and the impact of construction on the ocean biome.

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November 07, 2017 | Next Generation Prize Winners Reception | Córdoba, Argentina

Two thumbs up for Argentina’s next generation

Next Generation prize winning teams’ reception, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

In the recent Holcim Awards for Latin America, the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) continued its unrivalled success, taking out the first and third prizes in the Next Generation category of the world’s most significant competition in sustainable design. A reception to celebrate the success of UNC students was held at the Faculty of Architecture, Urban & Industrial Design (FAUD) to congratulate the students, present their concepts on sustainability, and promote sustainable construction in Argentina.

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October 05, 2017 | Media Release | San José, Costa Rica

Sustainable solutions for urgent water problems

Holcim Awards 2017 for Latin America prize handover ceremony, San José

Water is the hot topic among the project entries for the Holcim Awards in region Latin America. Whether for wastewater, drinking water, or tidal water, many of the prize winners have innovative and often surprising proposals for ways to master the use of this precious resource in Latin America. The Next Generation 1st prize went to Stefano Romagnoli, Juan Cruz Serafini, and Tomás Pont Apóstolo, with a large-scale plan to harness tidal energy on the coast of Punta Loyola, Argentina.

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June 10, 2017 | Regional Jury Report – Latin America | São Paulo, Brazil

“Infrastructure must not remain hidden”

Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

The jury was particularly taken by the authors’ critical stance concerning contemporary methods of energy production and their vision to tap into tidal energy as a renewable resource for the generation of electric power. The project furthermore demonstrates that infrastructure must not remain hidden, but can be used in its aesthetic potential, combining technology and beauty to create an intervention that is in sync with nature.

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March 21, 2017 | Statements on the Sustainability of the Project by the Author | Punta Loyola, Argentina

Landscape as Operative Land

Tidal energy landscape, Punta Loyola, Argentina

Global Energy Landscapes takes as a model the development of tidal energy, in one of the highest tidal range coasts in the world, Río Gallegos estuary, located in one of the greatest natural reserves, the Patagonia.

  • Planet – Climate change, we architects can (must) help
  • Place – Territory as a sustainable operative landscape
  • Progress – New research method of multiple scale projects
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pin Punta Loyola, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

Punta Loyola, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

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“Combining disciplines to re-think infrastructure” – Sustainable design by Stefano Romagnoli

By blending elements of sociology, biology, ecology, civil engineering and architecture, it’s possible to re-think how we create infrastructure says Stefano Romagnoli from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina. A Next Generation prize was presented to this infrastructure-landscape project for the generation of electric power based on tidal flow in the Río Gallegos estuary.

“Combining disciplines to re-think infrastructure” – Sustainable design by Stefano Romagnoli

By blending elements of sociology, biology, ecology, civil engineering and architecture, it’s possible to re-think how we create infrastructure says Stefano Romagnoli from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina. A Next Generation prize was presented to this infrastructure-landscape project for the generation of electric power based on tidal flow in the Río Gallegos estuary.

“Un gran éxito para Latinoamérica” – Alejandro Aravena

Premio Ideas para "Territorial Figure" en Argentina: El líder del jurado de los Global LafargeHolcim Awards, Alejandro Aravena destaca que la idea de los estudiantes de Córdoba es clara, relevante y original; y se manifiesta entusiasmado de que tanto el Award de Oro como uno de los premios Ideas para la categoría Next Generation hayan sido otorgados a proyectos presentados en Latinoamérica.

“Un gran éxito para Latinoamérica” – Alejandro Aravena

Premio Ideas para "Territorial Figure" en Argentina: El líder del jurado de los Global LafargeHolcim Awards, Alejandro Aravena destaca que la idea de los estudiantes de Córdoba es clara, relevante y original; y se manifiesta entusiasmado de que tanto el Award de Oro como uno de los premios Ideas para la categoría Next Generation hayan sido otorgados a proyectos presentados en Latinoamérica.

“Harnessing tidal power as a solution to Argentina’s electricity shortage.” – Stefano Romagnoli

Territorial Figure in Argentina by Stefano Romagnoli, Juan Cruz Serafini & Tomás Pont, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba proposes an infrastructure for the use of tidal energy in Río Gallegos estuary at Punta Loyola in Argentina. It merges infrastructure, landscape, and architecture in a magnificent natural setting.

“Harnessing tidal power as a solution to Argentina’s electricity shortage.” – Stefano Romagnoli

Territorial Figure in Argentina by Stefano Romagnoli, Juan Cruz Serafini & Tomás Pont, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba proposes an infrastructure for the use of tidal energy in Río Gallegos estuary at Punta Loyola in Argentina. It merges infrastructure, landscape, and architecture in a magnificent natural setting.